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so for most place the reason you volunteer is if you get help the company generally pays for the treatment, testing, and you are protected from losing your job. If you have an incident the FAA is going to take your medical, possibly your certificate, and the company is free to discipline you as they see fit.
Certainly more of an incentive if you are a dues paying employee. It’s a good protection for 121 employees.
If you aren’t, you’re on your own. In other words, if the industry just took a major hit, you haven’t made it to 121 world yet, you’re unemployed, and you find yourself at the bottom of a bottle? Unless you’re independently wealthy, you’re done.
Unfortunately, this will become all too common as the industry continues its slide.