Originally Posted by
rickair7777
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
Airline pilots have had to suck up the "juniority" of reserve guys for many years as well. The system appears to have survived intact.
I have never insinuated one should lie in a interview or to a detailer. My posts have stated the opposite.
Family is absolutely more important on a personal level. The military or the airlines ultimately do not care about your personal desires though. The present debate is whether the organizations involved benefit from use of the program, not the individual.
I hope key leaders read this thread. I never would have floated the idea on a open forum if I was trying to conceal anything. Let them consider the merits of letting someone use said program for what I proposed and act accordingly.
I am a current FTS guy and was a traditional reservist before that. Not trying to screw anyone over in the slightest. In fact when I posed this idea to the traditional guys in my squadron, all said they would do it if able.
It's comical for me to see this holier than thou attitude from the reserve guys on this thread. In the last 5 years of being involved with the reserves, I've regularly seen traditional guys pull way shadier "scams" than anything I've proposed here. Don't worry too much about the stellar traditional reserve reputation being tarnished by a program that can only be used by Active/FTS members.
Change is coming though. As scary as it may be to some.