Originally Posted by
Zard
Are you sitting left seat and can you hold a line? Are you bidding blanks in the summer for the better vacation pulls?
Just trying to learn the logic of your game, not being an @$$. I'm eventually going to lose my mil drop ace in the hole so I'm going to have to get good at playing this game straight up.
Left seat, can hold bottom 25% of blanks. Last summer was my first in the left seat and I could only hold rsv so VA pulls paid the min 26.25. With a blank and VA I can get 22-25 days off with a VA pull of 35-40 based on looking at friends who are same seniority who bid blanks. I've got a week of VA in June and I want the ability to elitt through summer to get days off I want/need to do summer things. Other than summer/VA months I plan on bidding rsv for awhile....if a jr lineholder gets 16-17 off and a rsv gets 15-16 off and the guarantee pay is the same to start....you'll make more on rsv as they use you and block will be lower....you just miss out on elitt and the ability to know what you're doing more than a couple days out. I live in base so I'd be bidding different if I commuted or had a drive outside of the rsv callout.