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I try to YS SC every single day as a local guy to shield my commuter bros from having to do it. Doesn’t seem there is much rhyme or reason as to how they assign it and to whom. Seems kind of random.
One thing that is a side effect of 18 hour callout is that it makes people much less usable following a rotation or SC, so it can be harder to track who on the availability list is actually legal for a particular assignment. It can be done, but you need to dig a little deeper. SC can actually be a beneficial roll of the dice to not get used the following day, or at least not until a very late report. Lots of times scheduling will dump a ton of people with 4 days of availability onto SC on their first day. Then they don't have anyone the following day available for an early report 3 day trip so that gets broken up or sent out as a GS. From what I've seen scheduling generally will not reduce someone's SC period in order to give them an assignment the next day.