If you're willing to work in the vault, go on several deployments a year, fly at the last minute, you can come pretty close to making what your contemporaries are pulling in on active duty. If you live more than 50 miles from the unit you'll fill out a travel voucher whenever you're on active duty and get paid for mileage to and from along with per diem. I've been out of the 135 for about six years, but my friends in it have told me there's a little more cash these days with the war on terror.