Brienne

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Brienne - Welcome to the Beyond BC group. Feel free to ask your question about your sailor's situation there. Or I can also see about directing the group members to your post. Most of them are fairly new to the Navy, but there are a couple of others who might have some answers. It has been a quiet few days on this site and some of even the ones that I rely on for information are dealing with life on the home front. 

Brienne

Hi, I saw you had posted the following comment on the Main room chat. Unfortunately, most people do not see that easily on either their computer or phone. Also, the mom who use to keep an eye on it a lot while working from home has now retired and doing G'ma duties, so she is not around to volunteer for that. The group discussions generally go to everyone's email feed and are more likely to see the messages. 

This was your question: 

"My sailor applied for leave for dates before Xmas. Her boss suggested that she instead shoot for dates including Xmas, because she has a lot of days off then anyway. But the boss also said not to apply yet- she would let her know when to apply. Anyone have experience with this?"

I do not know the exact answer, but these are my thoughts based on past experience and something my sailor gal mentioned to me yesterday. 

1) - If your sailor has a lot of leave time accumulated, then it is in her best interest to take the time off that will give her the most leave. Sometimes even her Chief or LPO is not going to be able to give her exact dates of ship movement (if she is shore duty they should know) until it comes down from chain of command, but they had an idea and will be able to guide the sailor. Sailors are only allowed to accumulate so much leave time before they loose it. Through COVID they were allowing more to be held on to, but I believe that extension is no longer in operation for future accumulated time. 

2) - I do not think you can put in a request for Holiday leave time until the holiday leave schedule has been posted. Then once it is posted they can apply for it. 

So, her boss is telling her it is best to plan to come home at Christmas time when there might be more leave time available, is how I understand what you asked. 

I hope this helps. 

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