Originally Posted by
Fletch727
Pretty much everyone at my Unit comes in on their days off and only comes to a few select scheduled drills per year. I haven't showed up as MIL in the past few years with exception of deployments, so I don't think the staffing list is a good representation at all. With pay so much better at the majors, we are having issues staffing weekly flying schedules because no one is willing to drop MIL with exception of a couple.
Same at my unit. Very hard to get participation at the SQ and I VERY rarely MIL drop a trip. I simply pre-load MIL before PBS runs for dates I know I HAVE to be there (usually 1 or 2 days of UTA a month and no more) so that my schedule is built around those days. My other MIL days are on days off. If a guy is senior enough, he doesn't ever have to take MIL cause he just bid around the MIL days, but I don't have that capability (deployments excluded of course). And when I do mil drop, it's a money looser 2.6 to 1.
By the way, I was forced to deploy during my probation...is that considered an abuse by one that is looking at the staffing page?
