Originally Posted by
rickair7777
With permission from the local unit (he might or might not feel the need to ask further up the chain), and from the airline I don't see anything illegal about it.
Are you talking ten days straight duty and then 20 days to burn accumulated leave? You can generally work for an airline while on terminal leave (including coming off reserve orders), people do start new hire class in that status sometimes. Non-issue with the mil, they expect you to go find a job on terminal, and the airlines are only taking the very slight chance that if the balloon goes up the mil will reel you back in.
If you're talking about working on days off mixed in with duty days while in a liberty status, still legal but need permission from both to CYA.
Basically the last part, yes. When we are on alert we only have to work 11 of the 33 days of orders. This often leads to weeks off at a time. For example I am currently off for almost 14 straight days because I front-loaded my month of alert. Now I am twiddling my thumbs at home avoiding my to-do list, but many of our guys will use this time to pick up a quick turn or an overnight to supplement their $ a little.