But they can go for a year, and get picked up on a prior experience bid straight to F11 or something that they actually want. Not wait for 3 years still at MLU, in hopes that NCEPT does somehow play out for them to be happy.
That’s if they even get hired back, and lucky enough to be selected to a facility that they actually want. More than likely they will be sent to another facility with a staffing problem this not even solving the problem only prolonging it. I may be biased but everyone who I came in with 6 years ago got hosed temporarily by the NCEPT and the hardships and DoD transfers slowed us down more but now 4/5 of us got picked up to higher level facilities, while those who got the instant gratification aren’t in better situations I.e training in a bigger facility but stuck on our low-level pay scale because you don’t get a pay raise when you hardship until you CPC.