Why? If you can’t hold the base then you can’t hold the base. If they are displacing first officers to captain, then they are entitled to hold whatever base they can and too bad for those below them. Why should someone senior be inconvenienced more because a hired gun DEC is taking a slot in a base that they want? The answer is that they shouldn’t and that the DEC received $45,000 in bonus money to accept his/her fate as the plug.