Originally Posted by
tbat15
I have a family to feed too. Why should their quality of life suffer if it doesn't needlessly have to? Your posts reek of "that guy is getting a better deal than me" BS.
I don't think it's an issue with you getting a good deal, it's an issue with...
1) Other pilots sucking up your juniority for many, many years.
2) Tarnishing the image of reserves in the eyes of airlines. making it hard to get hired, and generating increased pressure and harassment.
Originally Posted by
tbat15
It's pretty clear that both sides would have to allow it to happen. So if the Navy is willing to let you go for a bit and a airline is willing to hire, why wouldn't you take the deal? Out of some righteous sense of "well the guys back in the day had it tough so I have to as well".
The airlines will most certainly not "allow it to happen". If they know that's your plan, they won't hire you. Are you going to lie to them at the interview? Try telling them your plan up front...
Originally Posted by
tbat15
Quite frankly, using the program to have kids does nothing to better the Navy or improve the defense of this nation and is just as selfish of a reason as trying to further a civilian career.
No, family is far more important in the grand scheme than career-specifics. Constant deployments, IA's, and high-workload fast-track jobs make it really hard to raise little kids (especially for women). People talked, voted with their feet and the navy listened.
Starting or trying a different career, or even just working a regular civvy job is not a bad thing if it makes the member happy, fulfilled, saves the marriage, etc.
The issue here is the gross manipulation of the seniority system (hurts other pilots), gross manipulation of the associated pay scale (hurts the company), and the hate, discontent, and danger to USERRA this will generate.
Originally Posted by
tbat15
Whether this program can be used for the purpose I originally suggested is not going to be decided by anyone on this message board
Be careful... airline aviation is a very small community (smaller than the navy by a large margin). There are key leaders from unions, management, and the guard/reserves on here every day.
Originally Posted by
tbat15
I hope that if I were to ever show up in your cockpit after having done so you wouldn't be a dick to me over this reason alone.
There would be a danger of that if this becomes routine practice and causes USERRA to be rolled back, harming all of us traditional reservists. But maybe as regular AC that's not something you even care about.