Easy, I followed your link to the end of the thread and found that the OP - having not received an answer to his question, posed the same (polite) request on 31 December last year and still had no reply. I think he/she is being perfectly reasonable in asking the same question in an active thread. Neither you nor downsizer gave any helpful information.
I, too, have an interest in the answer - merely casual. I can't beat Herod's time (my attestation-to-first-Sqn took 2 years and 2 months), but at least I can claim to have been a Pilot Ossifer aircraft captain for the initial 4 months of my first tour.