I didn't want to go abroad and wanted to do a one for one swap with someone, and I could have saved the company money and made me and the other guy happy. They are extremely inflexible. Funerals, cost savings to the company, kids events...they don't care. Any newhire who comes in with a request is a burden to them. They don't care what the request is or why. The instructors are great, the schedulers are not so much. just get it in your head that this company (ie the two schedulers) is about as flexible as the military for the 2 months you are in training.