I've never dropped long term mloa and just worked a job in the the squadron, but we sure as heck needed our guys to do that over the last 5+ years. We were giving AGR gigs to dudes from other services who weren't even qualified in our jet, because we couldn't fill our AGR spots due to the airlines hiring. If our airline guys hadn't taken some long term MLOA, our squadron would have been hurting in the experience department, big time. Also, lets be real on the "moral/ethical" talk...as if the company had the moral high ground on that...