obs wait 7 wks
oe wait 8 wks and counting

 

Ok I'll bite what is "obs"?

 

I was very lucky, and I also planned well. I saved up all of my leave. I put my availability date as the day that I would first be able to start my 90 days of terminal leave and 20 days of PTAD. I was called to interview about 60 days before that day. I was receiving two paychecks for a little while.

Delta won't know and probably won't care if you push back your separation date. If you can't make the date, you can take a military deferral. I would try to avoid this, because you are giving up a lot of seniority.

There are jobs other than the military and Delta that you could take in the interim. They probably don't pay a whole lot, but they are better than nothing.

People need to plan ahead of time for this transition. I made the decision to move on, and I realized that I needed to make drastic changes to help that happen. A year and a half before I separated, I moved into the crappiest apartment I could find in Milton, FL. Rent was $499 per month. For 18 months, I put the $1000 a month I was saving on rent in to savings for my transition period. I'm sure you can find similarly creative things to do.

 

Are you eligible for unemployment if you retire from the service?

 

[QUOTE=Falcon20;1984353]Ok I'll bite what is "obs"?[/QUOTE

Observation rides.

 

What aircraft?

 

The short answer is no. The longer answer is that if you can unemployment, your pension is cut accordingly.

If you separate, yes you can get unemployment.

Nice job Tummy, that's some nice work.

 

Any indications of whether this timeline will continue? My 44X is coming up in a few weeks.

 

It will until they clear the backlog of guys in the pipeline. I just finished my first OE rotation and waited 68 days from the day I finished my 44X.

 

When I saw the writing on the wall and didn't even have an interview scheduled I pushed my retirement date back 6 months. Long story short, I had to defer 2 classes, lost about 40 seniority numbers, and started a month later than I could have. The nice thing was I was getting my full mil pay for 3 months which coincided perfectly with INDOC, sims, and OE. Hopefully my timing was such that those 40 numbers never matter.