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Comment by Anti M on November 7, 2012 at 2:35am
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Yes. Two things to know: he must purchase his own plane tickets (can be done on base or you can book them). Two, he will be using leave days, which are not simply free time off. These are paid vacation days he earns at 2.5 days each month. He won't have enough coming out of boot camp, but he can borrow against his future leave days. Means he'll be short on leave after A school, but hey, that's okay.
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Comment by lemonelephant on November 7, 2012 at 3:00am
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As far as holiday leave, that has to be applied for (and granted) at his next command ("A" School). It is not guaranteed. Your new Sailor will have about five days of earned leave following BC (2.5 per month of active duty). He can borrow leave ("go in the hole"). It is frowned upon, but some commands permit it during the holiday stand down so it depends on the school. If your Sailor does take leave, he does have to "pay it back", but since no leave is granted in "A" School other than the holiday stand down, the Sailor can bulid it back up during "A" School. Your Sailor will have to decide what he wants to do. Some "A" Schools require that the Sailors go through INDOC (Indoctrination) before they can take leave.
As Anti M pointed out, he will have to pay for his transportation home and back to his "A" School for Leave.
Where will he be going to "A" School and/or what will his rating (job) be? There is most likely a group for his "A" School and/or rating and you can check to see how the Christmas stand down has been handled in the past.
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You're be correct the rest of the year, but no, he does NOT need to check into A school first for this leave. It is the ONLY one, a special circumstance, the graduating class indeed goes directly onto Christmas leave. Took me a while to wrap my head around it last year.
They will tell him where he needs to go to report in after the leave is over.
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Anti M, I looked back to last year and previous years and saw that some flew to "A" School before getting the holiday leave and others left from BC. Maybe it all depends on the days that get approved.
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The CO put out that they were going straight on leave this year. I'll double check, but anyone with A school in Great Lakes isn't going to check in first. So we may both be right.
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From the CO at Great Lakes A school TSC:
Reply by Skipper Lintner on
The graduating class on the 21st will go directly on leave after graduation. The rules are a little different at RTC but I believe they will be allowed to be on leave until the 30th. They won't check in to TSC until they return from leave.
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