There are two programs, one is 900 a semester stipend, and the other 5k tuition reimbursement per year for two years. Both add time to your contract. As an aviation guy, it doesn’t matter because your locked in till late 30s anyway.
With PLC, your pay entry base date starts when you report to PLC jr. Unless you take the tuition reimbursement, then they have a weird calculation. I took both, so my pay entry base date is in April, my date of rank is in May, and my comm. date is in June??? Don’t ask me how it works. If I didn’t take the tuition money, I would have an extra two years on my pay entry base date, and a bigger pay check. But at the time, I was a finance major and calculated the present value of future cash flows, and it made more sense to take the tuition money. Besides, I needed it.
The 900/semester stipend, adds years, but you keep the early pay date.
There is talk of changing the rules to remove the double penalty, why add extra years and remove the early pay date. I make some calls every few months to see if I can get my pay entry base date back, but of course it doesn’t work.
Questions a lot better for an OSO then a gouge forum.