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Even though they could have rotated the positions could have been rotated there was too much that had to be covered in such a short period of time. Whoever took on the role just had to get good at it and in a hurry.

On any given day the amount of things you'd have to learn was ridiculous. Imagine being force fed six months of material that you have to know by the end of the week and the cycle never stops. So whatever position someone wound up with they had to learn it and learn it well otherwise they'd be in a really bad position. The collateral duties such as nasty nine or what have you weren't so bad but the leadership positions they'd always have a ton of eyes on their every move.