Originally Posted by
Buck Rogers
Also, it's analogous to vacancy bids. Just because what you want on a vacancy bid is not published, doesn't mean you won't get it because it may open up on the bid run.
Assume someone senior to you drops that primo trip that is exactly what you want. If you have submitted a PU/SWAP for that specific rotation(not posted) you may get it. If you don't have the PU/SWAP slip in, there is no way you will get it. Additionally, you can put in a *4/15NOV if you will take any four day trip on 15 Nov. These are known as blind swap with the pot. Sometimes you can get some really cool trips that are "blind" . I once got a military charter to Sofia Bulgaria and the Middle East. 6 day trip with international DH front and back end. With a *6 blind swap/PU I got it. Scheduling may have dropped it into the pot 3 minutes prior to a PCS run hence nobody really even had time to see it. With the blind slip in, I got the slot machine to ring up three 7's. Of course, it could always give you a pile of "Crap, who knew they could build a trip that bad"
9 times out of 10(or more) I was extremely happy with my blind swaps/pick-ups.
Hmm, clearly I am out of my element, I hadn’t thought about putting in a swap request for stuff that isn’t on the trade board currently. I assume if something gets put into open time that would be compatible with your blind request, it will process your swap on the same run? Or will it dump a bunch of stuff into open time and then process swaps with the newly available stuff in the next run?
Thank you for the write-up!