Christmas Exodus

[Mollie]

Ok, has anyones daughter/son/wife/finacne heard about how many days of leave they get? Do they get new years?

[Anti M]

Well, the Navy does recognize national holidays, once you hit the fleet, you often get those days off ... unless you have duty or there's operational matters to take care of. That is, don't count on it!

The difference is the one between liberty and leave. The reason your sailor is being charged leave is that leave and liberty cannot be combined, it is one or the other.

Liberty: "normal" time off, such as weekends and holidays, up to 96 hours. There are travel restrictions on liberty, so no flying home for the weekend.

Leave is the earned time off, 30 days a year, must be requested. Whether the request is approved depends on a number of factors.

[Hoppi aka Angie]

ALSO with leave you can leave the certain miles restriction that is not allowed while on liberty.

[Dianne]

Thanks Anti M!!

[Amy [[Chips proud wife<3]]]

my husband is in GL for A School and they told him he has from 12/19-1/04 off

[FC3 Thomas]

Navy almost always gives leave around the holidays. I've only been through A and C school. As was mentioned before, they split into two halves, and each gets one holiday (Christmas/New Year's). It's roughly a week and a half to two weeks. The reason we split and that different Sailors get different leave days is because someone has to stay at the command to keep it running at a minimal level. There are still jobs to do and still duty days. Even though there's no training, and it's generally more relaxed, a lot of updates and repairs go on during the Holiday Standdown period.

[K]

Our son had his PIR this morning and said they had four days off for Xmas. He will be in Charleston for his A school.

He was not sure which four days they had as he left his orders in his space and didn't have them with him.

[DebbieDee]

But of course my sailor wont be coming home from Afghanistan until no sooner than next summer.

[Chelsea]

my fiancee is in pensacola waiting to class up, he and some others that are waiting get 19 dec thru 4 jan off.

[Anti M]

Wow ... they didn't do that to us, but it was ages ago. And it was ET A school, different command. I'd be curious to know how that works now.

[Richard]

My son is in Pensacola awaiting A School. (PIR'd 9/12) Seems everyone in his situation is getting 12/19 at 16:30 until 1/3/09 at 18:00 - if that helps anyone

[Sandy Balch]

I heard 30 days a year.

[Sandy Balch]

Oppps, i read your message wrong. I thought you meant days off for the year. :}