Originally Posted by
reservelyfe
Regarding personal drop: Does this come out of some sort of bank? Or can you also just drop a reserve day as unpaid time and make less with more days off?
Personal drops (PD) is unpaid. You can drop all the way down to zero as either a line holder or reserve if there is enough coverage. If you have banked payback days (PB) you can use those instead to get the day off but not lose pay. Generally you earn PB days by working a GS on your off days as a reserve. You can only bank PB days if you work a GS and you have no more on call days for the rest of the month.