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Great posts, Doc, I appreciate your insight as well as the AFI cites you have given in your other postings---all very helpful indeed. On this theme, of "Zombie with Herpes" (no offense Pitts, I'm thinking of the same track) I mean old guy coming back to fly, post five years, no prior waivers ever needed, still excellent health, if I ended up with an FCII would it get me in the door and then later allow me to fly, or does it mean that FCII solely qualifies one to fly a desk and not a jet? Thanks for the insights, and great question, Pitts, sincerely, you must bring something to the table so hopefully your OG leadership's efforts will aid your efforts. I'm sure that helps a lot too. Best of luck!

Pitts, Congrats on getting back in. As mentioned by others earlier you are protected. You were trying to do your best and informed your employer. So perhaps whoever you relayed it to in turn miscommunicated or misinterpreted the message to management, in short something was lost in translation. ESGR is a great resource but encourage your supervisor to take part in those "boss lifts" or employer appreciation days, and diplomacy on your part can help, because they don't have a clue about how you joining the Guard is going to affect your ability to support their mission. Usually once they get it, they may not like it, but the law is the law. If you do have to get an attorney involved, there are several routes check out this Department of Labor Vet site. http://www.dol.gov/vets/programs/userra/ Yes, even federal agencies ---to read ignorant supervisors sometimes get USERRA wrong as well. Good luck!

I created an IMA slot, but it took a long time and I don't know what the process is these days, so I don't know what kind of a time window it will take for you. Yes, the Air Force was talking downsizing back then so don't let that talk discourage you. But like anything if you talk to the people on the ARPC side that actually move the paperwork and line up the DO it might happen much quicker. My case it took almost two years to get the slot lined up that I ended up retiring in my old IMA slot. Yeah you can create the IMA in any manner, points only, or traditional two days a month and 14 days per year. At the end of it all ARPC will have to sign up for it. Given the timeline it might be best to find an IMA slot that has already been created and then having your bird in hand try to create your slot. Now depending on the IMA unit they might let you drill with the range guy, so he's glad to have you. Plus your regular unit now doesn't have to worry about how to keep you busy, but you will need to make sure that you are filling all of those mandatory annual training squares, which is pretty much all online now I believe. Part of the challenge is you will have the guy you work for to please, then the senior IMA geek who's there to make sure you are filling out all of your squares PME, etc. Then you will have the ARPC IMA manager of your group and they can be a real pain if they set up some annual training symposium for all IMAs but you for some reason have a regular job and can't attend the ARPC love fest, and they are the real pain because they approve your orders, mine was a major conehead. All in all it was a great deal, you used to be able to telecommute I don't know if you can still do that. Some people were IMA's like to Lakenheath so they'd go and do a huge tour and be done or in some cases they would work out of a local reserve unit to get their squares filled do some projects and then go to the foreign base for two weeks. There was this huge listing of all IMA vacancies plus there was a separate listing for IMA tours of duty or man days. I liked the IMA program, especially being able to pick up additional man days, and when I had to go min schedule it worked for me as well. Ask if they have any RPI coded IMA slots ya never know. Good luck!