Most Stat Tours at the NGB/ANGRC were formerly USERRA Exempt up until May of 2015. Airline staff who came up in 2014 helped push that easy button, which deleted the “Exempt” and now your Stat tour began to count against the 5 year clock. We lost a lot of our airline folks who were near the 5 year limit and managed to land a Stat Tour to stop the clock in order to gain more retirement points or finalize an active duty retirement. That strategy worked up until mid 2015. Guillotine came down and forced many back to their airlines. Only those who had secured “Exception To Policy” were able to continue. All sorts of small print must be read before you sign at the dotted line. Loop holes have been tightening for years.