I think 3-day opt is only an option for 365s. If you get tapped for a 180 (or other deployment short of a 365) without a conflicting DOS you are fucked.
Read up up on the separations afi. It's painful legalese. Once you have a potential plan of action in mind, go talk to the separations people at your mpf. They're good at poking holes in your plans.
I'm still unsure how they can get away with calling it an "indeterminate" TDY and using those flex rules when they know good and damn well it's a 365.
Which means it should be an unaccompanied remote PCS.
Start attaching that financial tail to a 365 and see how quick it turns back into a 120 or 179
You are likely fucked.
Unless you were to maybe fail a pt test, or start talking to the flight doc about all the stuff that you'll be telling the va .....
DTS is supposed to make your life easier! File whatever it says and let the finance eggheads sort it out. You aren't the finance expert, that's not your job.
(But if you think you're overpaid, I'd sit on that money for a while)
Shit. They tried to get me to sign a 36 month adsc to requal on a plane I had already flown, AFTER I 7-day opted and set a retirement date.
They tried three seperate times to sneak that paperwork by. Three.
I had some choice words.