QOL is better if you live in base. Much better than commuting.
If those four days of work started at 2100 on day 1 and ended at 0600 on day 4 would you call that four days or two days plus?
Turns go senior. But it’s an o dark 30 wake up and you’re gone all day for 10-12 days. Ten days is 20-30 meals missed. If you take the easy two day trip you ‘work’ 14 days, with 7 overnights, but only miss 21 meals at home.
Three day trips to Europe? Five all month? Leave home at 1500 on day 1 and get home around 1600 on day three.
Your days off are O F F. No phone calls. No texts. No meetings. No reports. No deadlines.