I don't doubt it, but that sounds like a strange choice. A FAC tour seems like an easy choice to escape and be guaranteed flying orders on the back end. Not all IA's are equally shitty, but that still seems weird.
Very few of us have the pleasure of C-12 out-and-ins to San Antonio for lunch, bagging fleet guys' total monthly hours in 1 day while reading a magazine and monitoring autopilot.
