I’m all for it. Don’t really care how it is worded. Like Lawman and others said, more ammunition to tell the detailer/monitor to get bent when they try to tell you that some hardship unaccompanied garbage non-flying job is what you have to go do. That, or you take it knowing you can come back to a job without being current. The guard/reserve guys who are eligible already have their names in the hat(s). They’re trying to pull deep, like was said before, to secure the next generation that isn’t quite ready to pull out of the oven yet. Smart
I dont want or need to see the military perpetually (and increasingly) undermanned to vindicate my own personal decision. It shouldn’t be this way, and it doesn’t have to be. I want our good guys who are still having fun to stick around. This program can be great for them too. But the DoD and the bigger picture of DC, has been f***king us hard and putting us away wet, with too little to get the job done, for far too long. It’s been this way since I’ve been around. I imagine it has been this way since guys like Mike and Ian were around too. It is painful, but the military is paying the piper for the bad manning and politically inspired operational decisions that have been making continuously for > 20 years. It just took a long time for things to come to a head.