Any news on any Legacy/Major recalls/hiring in the next 6 -12 months??

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10-20-2008, 10:35 PM

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KC10 FATboy

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Originally Posted by WarEagle28

C5skippy,

Did you VSP or retire from the Air Force? If you VSP'd, did you receive your voluntary recall letter?

WarE

All of us are receiving voluntary recalls letters. But nobody should take them up on their offer. Give it six months, and they will be paying for us to come back.

-Fatty

10-21-2008, 06:09 AM

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Originally Posted by C5skippy

WarE,
Being an LSU graduate, I don't know if I should answer you. Just kidding. I separated and am in the Guard now. I have some friends who VSP'ed and I can ask them.

Geux Tigers!

10-21-2008, 10:28 AM

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Barney17

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Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy

All of us are receiving voluntary recalls letters. But nobody should take them up on their offer. Give it six months, and they will be paying for us to come back.

-Fatty

Strange because I have not received voluntary recall letter (although I would burn it before it made its way into my house). I VSP'd Sep 29th 07, anyone with that date received a letter? There is a number in my head that would make me come back, but man is it a high number

10-21-2008, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Ottopilot

Furlough last month, hire next month? I don't think so. CAL won't be hiring for awhile. CAL also pushed back some aircraft orders a year due to Boeing strike & economy.

Why not? Airlines like to hire one month, and then furlough the next, so why not vice versa?

10-21-2008, 11:22 AM

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C5skippy

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Originally Posted by Barney17

I heard it was for ISR pilot slots. If anyone doesn't quite know what ISR is...ISR = UAV. I bet they want you to give the money back. After the election I'm sure the AF will downsize and those who came back on will get RIF'ed and their base with get BRAC'ed, just so they can't sell their house.

10-21-2008, 11:33 AM

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Silver2Gold

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[QUOTE= If anyone doesn't quite know what ISR is...ISR = UAV. [/QUOTE]

There are a small group of us that did the ISR mission and had nothing to do with UAVs. I would agree though, coming back in would probably be a quick route to a UAV job - unless you already have experience in a an under-manned ISR platform.

I took the VSP with a separation date of 29 Sep 07, and I received the letter about a week ago.

10-22-2008, 11:35 AM

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Trogdor

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I think the airlines have finally realized how to get the prices of tickets up to where they should be. The only way to do this is to cut some of the domestic capacity out of the market. For the first time ever, most of the airlines are cutting back at the same time. So recall soon? Not likely.

-Furloughed US