Lets play a game:

You're on reserve, you see a 4-day trip in open time for the next day that you really want to do. There are 5 different 4-days btw, the one you want is awesome, the others suck bad. So its 6:55 in the am and the reserve availability list puts you at #8, so you don't have to volunteer for anything. But you really want that trip so if you reduce you're raw you are now #4.

Question A) Does scheduling look at the PCS requests first or assign the first trip that pops up to the #1 guy, the second trip to the #2, the 3 to the 3rd, and now here you are, well too bad the trip you wanted is gone, you get the 4th trip, and so on.

Question B) So you're watching the open time get assigned and you notice the trip you wanted was assigned away, if you pull your "reduce raw score" right then and there, are you back to the #8 position or does scheduling care?

Question C) Is this done by hand or by computer with the hand helping out? I got skipped for a trip once when I was #1 to be called, so I called them and they said it was because the #2 guy was only legal to do the trip I wanted while I was legal to do any of the other trips so thats why they did it. When I called and told the scheduler my employee number and before I said another word he was like, oh you, yeah we were talking about your request this morning and then he explained what happened. So to me, that means its 100% hand done, maybe not.

---
Sorry if this was off topic, I'm cleaning the garage and didn't look back. Just blind post. Now back to my garage, so excited because there is nothing more fun then standing outside and having sweat pour down your face. Thanks Georgia! When we opening a DEN base?!?!? I think thats the only time I could ever look at my wife and say "as the MAN of this house, we're moving! And I don't care about friends and family here..." Of course, we won't move, but I will have said it with authority which is a win in FTB's pitty book.