1. If you call being an IP supporting GWOT, I can see it, but we looked at stuff like that as a bit of a stretch. It is a valuable service, but it ain't really supporting the war if you do the same thing in peacetime, right? That's part of the problem. USNR calls almost anything you do "Fleet Support" as if the fleet gives a rat's ass that a bunch of reserve quitters are out bagging day traps or controlling fighters, or flying ship support, etc.
2. Quit being a brown nose!
I suppose it's how you look at it. Right now in the TRACOM, if you're in a flying reserve billet, chances are pretty low to get an IA. Bad for the AD guys, but good for the squadron who gets to continue to utilize the reserve bodies. Then there's the reserve squadrons themselves. They're certainly pulling their weight, both the FTS-ers and the reservists. On the helo side, only one of 4 squadrons doesn't deploy right now, and that one is just getting themselves together since they merged. Before that, it was only 1 of 5 that didn't deploy. I can't speak to the pointy nose guys.
As for the IAs, who's getting them? Certainly a lot of FTS-ers, you could go either way w/ your previous thread. Are we abusing the reserves? Yes and no, the reservists themselves, maybe not, but they're still available to fly the missions while the AD guys take some of the pain.
