Herc drivers have four months deployed swapped with four months home pretty consistent. Your only ways out of it are AETC or stick around for staff tour - which could be an unaccompanied year to the sandbox. QOL sucks and there will be a mass exodus as the committments come up. The only thing that will temper it will be the jump from 8 year to 10 year committments which will slow the floodgates and mask the real issue from AF leadership.

I love government accounting....I took VSP with 9 years in and got out one year before my pilot training committment expired. Buddy of mine is same year group, same qualifications, took the retention bonus to stay. Roughly we were both paid the same amount, one of us to stay and one of us to leave...somebody call the Fraud, Waste and Abuse Hotline.