Bar,

I doubt it. The shortage on weekends seems odd to me also, but it all seemed to start with a procedural change in figuring reserves required maybe a year or two ago. One month we were short reserves every day and the next month we suddenly had excess reserves almost every day.

As far as me personally, I am no longer flying in the reserves so my MIL is now almost always during the workweek. I try to cover it with X days and this has actually forced me to put X days midweek which at time causes me to be on reserve on the weekends, which I normally would not do.

Scoop

Scoop,
When I started flying a desk in the reserves, I flew DAL on the weekends/holidays. I didn't need a single mil leave day in the final 3 years. I ended up with 6900 points, and never had to drop a DAL trip, so I wasn't a slacker for either of them.

Talk to your boss in the reserves about options. A standing/open leave form keeps both activities possible... Full time.

Scambo, was that just barely short of the 7305ish you would need for a full active duty retirement? Or were most of those retirement points but not active points?

I was at the 29 year point when I retired. I was personally ready to go at 27yrs. I was asked to stay, but then, at the same time, the full time orders were drying up and I clearly transmitted my desire to go. You can overstay, not your welcome, but your personal willingness to perform. That's where I was. No regrets.

SCAMBO,

PM sent.

Scoop

PBS question for anyone.
On the PBS desktop application, when you look at the calendar view you can look at each trip and it has "C/I: hh:mm" at the start of the trip (where hh:mm is some time like 16:32), and "C/O: hh:mm" at the end.

I know it's probably supposed to indicate how much time for some limit (30 in 7?) is flowing INTO the trip (carry in? C/I?) and how much has to be looked at after the trip (carry out C/O?), but for the life of me I can't find any combination of trip length, total block for the trip, or anything, that makes those C/I and C/O numbers have any meaning.

Anyone know what those nums are?
Thx!

They said they were not going to backfill any of the FO positions on this AE.

So I thought I was the only one being harassed by the CPO for Mil Leave. Guess not. Yep, have no doubt, the company is putting the screws on for MLOA guys. Been sitting reserve for almost 6 years now and doing about the same MLOA as ever...but now get more calls from the CPO than desired.

well it was on the base of my neck, C6/7. I had a spinal fusion done back in july after 2 rounds of injections failed to reduce the pain and numbness. I had a huge herniated disc at C7 that was out 9mm pressing on my spinal cord. C6 and C5 are out too but not to the extent 7 was. The process went great and the company has been really good throughout. With that said, they did call when i was out more than 14 days and i told them exactly what was going on. I have more than adequate paperwork after all the doctor and insurance stuff so providing proof wasnt an issue obviously. I have been out since Mid May. Harvey Watt and DPMA worked as advertised which reduced the stress of worrying about pay etc. Good luck and feel free to shoot me a message if you have any questions.

Glad to be back :D

Good to hear you are doing well.

I have but one question: is that at all preventable? I ask as a few in my family have 'a bad back' however none have had any operations at this point. Just wondered if it is at all preventable, or nothing one can do. I'll do some reading myself.