Originally Posted by
Schwanker
Many furloughed after 911 subsequently transitioned to a military leave when recalled. Delta then went on to start hiring new hires while these pilots were on MLOA. Later some of these new hires pilots (2007 era) started to advocate to both ALPA and the company if pilots exceeded 5 years cumulative Military Leave, they should be removed from the list.
Not all mil leaves are created equally. A lot of folks grab hold of the 5-year cumulative service under USERRA without looking at the exemptions, for example, contingency orders/deployments. While USERRA does in theory limit folks from dropping years worth of orders to hang out on AGR status in their units, there is nothing to prevent folks from going on back to back deployments or other contingency type operations, there’s literally no time limit in that case.