Personally I don't find moral equivalency between a Reservist on Extended Active Duty, and a sabbatical-program regAF. USERRA was intended for the former. Not a distinction without a difference, in my book. It kinda scoffs at the SELRES folks to be frank.

As to Navy FTS (whose closest equivalent would be the AGR in the Chair Force), not everybody is doing it to hide from airline juniority. Some of us consider our ARC F/T work a legitimate career on its own merits. I know Reserve full time work can be the toilet paper du jour for the airline fanboi crowd, but let's stay classy San Diego...

That said, yes, we all know the furlough Lost Decade guy who got to 7200 AD points in the Reserves. Most did so above water. Others? They fiddled with the orders to ensure they were USERRA-counter exempt a bit too liberally for my taste. but that's a hate the game not the playa' kind of thing I suppose. It's clear not everybody on here sees eye to eye on this topic, and that IS a problem imo when it comes to the mixed company of civilian-only airline peers. We're all rent seekers in life, some more than others. Certainly why we can't have nice things. I digress...