The real issue is how do you define "restoration?"

Is "restoration" every reserve being on 24/7 short call, like it was several decades ago?

Is it every reserve being on short call at 0300 on your first on call day...like it was 20 years ago when I started here? (imagine if we negotiated that now; riots would ensue)

Is it not being able to bid for CQ, nor have vacation slide, nor being able to positive space deviate from DH?

Is it ATL commuters having to pay for their own hotel for all training, because a hotel is only provided for "training away from your base?"


Would all those guys on Chit Chat (I assume, as I have never once been to that toxic site) prefer to go back to those "good ol' days" just to get a traditional DB back (which WILL be terminated again) and claim "restoration?"

I surely hope not. The "good ol' days?" I think nyet. Give me the good newer days, and lets all work to make them even better.


Edit: I realize that *some* of the old days truly did have some superior elements, including a DB that at that time paid out reliably. But pining for the good old days is a fool's errand. It ain't happening, and focusing on the past at the expense of a possibly superior future is pointless.