Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Pribably doable for some flying. Hard to do for some types of flying requiring military working areas, supersonic areas, ACMI ranges, bombing ranges, etc. Not possible for some units requiring PRP monitoring.
Yes.
Also relying more heavily on guard/reserve will just further inflame industry pushback against USERRA, which was already ramped up pre-covid. At some point the industry is not going keep granting seniority numbers (and vacation, 401k, etc) to people who are more full time than part-time. They don't like doing it now, with only a relative handful in that camp.
The AD needs to be the AD. The reserves are surge capacity for contingencies, not a replacement for costly AD force structure (which needs to much more responsive than guard/reserves).