OutThere

I'm not a flyer, but my PME was over 180 days and being guard, they consider over 139 days in the JFTR to be the magic number. PCS'ing in the guard is never a PCS, it's temporary duty (TDY) for something like pilot/tech training or whatever. Since you never detach from your home station, your PERMANENT station, it's never permanently changing stations in practice; even in theory, it's not a PCS. But the ANGI or JFTR will tell you it is, to save $. I do wonder how legal it is to send somebody on temporary duty but pretend, by writing into an instruction, that it's a full up, permanent move from one station to another. Just because it's called a PCS, doesn't mean you can't take to the JAG and/or IG for investigation into fraud.