Originally Posted by Spicy McHaggis

Yeah sure why not? I don’t know the dude or even who it was. I thought it was pretty funny. One Mil day - Xmas off - one Mil day on a plane that has no one or two day trips. But he could have been part of a Santa Claus strike package with a Boxing Day BDA sortie I guess.

Like someone else said, it’s comical to think mil leave isn’t abused by some. At my old joint I flat out heard guys say “oh if I can’t hold it off I’ll get my CO to write me up some orders”.

Here I’ve seen guys below the g line put a couple mil days on the transition when it’s known they need as many reserves as possible. Since PBS can’t give them a reserve line working the transition they’ll get a hard line and someone above will sit reserve because of it.

FWIW this is a total hate the game not the players.