This is one of many reasons that the reserve system is the elephant in the room that nobody seems to be able to see. The company can use reserves from any base to cover any other base. This allows lower manning in any given base which in turn restricts lineholders' ability to swap drop etc... And.... since they can do this, they can avoid using short call reserves. They need to be accountable for each and every short call they assigned, and financially "penalized" for putting a pilot on SC. THEN.. they might be a little more judicious in those assignments... But we all know that ain't gonna happen, because we will all be senior someday...