Originally Posted by
usmc-sgt
Your second question answers the first.
yes, top (senior) reserve bidders can hold anything they want off so long as they are on the contractually required amount of days.
yes, there are some senior folks who are local and have been line holders for 5-8+ years who choose to bid reserve. It is possible to bid reserve and hold every weekend off..after awhile.
You forgot to add that if you bid SCL you have virtually zero flexibility to move any days around, unless you want to spend an hour staring at a grid of numbers to be denied a swap from Monday to Wednesday because 1-day reserve is below minimums.
That being said I’m middle of the rung in the reserve bench and can hold weekends off. But mmmm there is still about 0 flexibility. 30 reserves on Tuesdays With 31 required makes it hard to swap days around, some how though, the weekends only have 8 people on it.
I could be missing the magic formula for moving days around.