Need your perspective!! (A school and Leave)

[Tiffany51908]

So here is my situation. My sailor finished A school Friday. From what he was told, he would have leave right after school and before going to his duty station. It gets complicated BC he has to check in at his duty station the 20th and meet up with his guys that are already deployed. So he was suppose to come home tomorrow and stay till the 18th. Now his base (a school) is saying that they do not have the funds to send him to his duty station right now so they have him on "hold". His sponsor on the other hand is saying he cannot report any later than what his orders say, which i understand but if this base isn't sending him then its out of his hands. So does the navy not work together when it comes to funding plane tickets and stuff? The two bases are not telling him the same thing.

Mean while i'm freaking out because i cannot go through this deployment without seeing my sailor first! I have spent a whole 6 hours with him in the last 5 months and  this deployment is gonna be another 6 months (at least!). 

My point is, i heard there is some rule that after training they get leave guaranteed. Is that true? Have any of you been in this situation? The Navy is beyond frustrating me. It feels like nothing is ever the way they say. I'm just venting a bit lol. I know what ever they say goes, but just wanted to see what you ladies think about this. 

[Anti M]

When it is time for them to move, the travel office puts in for the transport authorization.  He can request a detour home, and he pays the difference, but until the travel authorization comes in, he is stuck on hold.  His new command knows his flight dates as soon as he does, so the report date would be adjusted without trouble to him.  Sadly, his leave days are on the back burner.

Leave is never guaranteed, even when you're on it.  The Navy can recall you.  Doesn't happen often, takes a true emergency, he's not that valuable yet.   

Good luck and congrats when you do get married.  

[Tiffany51908]

Thank you!! we will get there eventually lol.

His chief said he would get his leave but she has to assign new orders. they shut the A school down for a bit so they are a week or two behind. From what he told me everyone who was granted leave prior to graduation will still get it they just have to wait for new orders. Sounds so complicated 

[sailorwifenmom]

There is a chance that his leave could end up not happening.  But honestly, and this is not meant to sound mean or obnoxious towards his sponsor or anyone, but has his sponsor asked his Chief about this?  The reason I ask is because while the sponsor helps them get checked in and is there to answer questions and stuff, and they are the person who takes them around to check in, they aren't the ones they check in with - that will be with the various people in the chain of command... Their sponsor is usually someone who is a peer as far as rank goes, so odds are, if your Sailor is just coming from A school, his sponsor is going to be someone who is pretty Junior, and really isn't going to be the one that will be in any position to help him with this, unless he has already gone to the Chiefs and they said no.  But, a lot of times, sponsors who are somewhat new to the Navy themselves aren't fully aware of all the things that can be done in unusual or somewhat unique situations. 

I have asked my husband, and here is what he says:

Her Sailor needs to talk to his Chief at the School and get an explanation of what is going on.  There is a possibility that the Navy has run out of funds to transfer him.  With the Government running on a Continuing Resolution, the Navy runs on limited funds and only gets money to operate for about 3 months at a time.  If that is the case, her Sailors report date will be moved.  The Navy can't require him to pay to move himself to his duty station.  But, the school should also notify the new command what is going on.   If he is on hold, have him ask about taking leave while he waits to move.  They may allow it or if they are expecting the money anytime they may make him wait until they know more.  Since the Navy doesn't pay for Sailors to go to their leave addresses anyway, they might allow him do this - go on leave while he's on hold, then, when his leave is up, report back to his A school to ship out. 

(Me again, not my husband) -- I hope this helps!  I know that he has said that he's gotten orders for a lot of Sailors coming into his Department whose orders said "pending funding".  The key is talking to his Chain and seeing what's going on, don't just rely on the word of his sponsor for this sort of thing.  I know to new Sailors fresh out of A school, their Chiefs can seem pretty intimidating and mean (and a lot of them are, lol) but they really are there to help their Sailors! 

[Tiffany51908]

Thank you sailorwifenmom!! I appreciate the advice and he did talk to his chief! She said she will change the date on his orders so he can get leave. His sponsor hasnt been very helpful but in his defense, he is deployed on the ship my sailor will be meeting up with him at. They communicate through email and its not to great when you have 100 questions you know he wont have time to answer. His sponsor is also his LPO (i guess thats who he will be reporting to) so my sailor didn't want to step on any toes but he really wants to take this leave so he spoke to his chief and thank God she was very nice about it!! 

[Angie]

Reality it doesn't matter what his orders say...if he is still at "A" School and they have to change his date he has to report to his command they will send out the required paper work to change hsi date.  The SCHOOL will do that, your Sailor doesn't  do that! 

 

 

[Tiffany51908]

Thank you! Yea that is what his chief said but the emails from his sponsor were not consistent. I just hope it gets worked out ASAP

[meagan5220]

Email on the ship right now is going to be very crazy especially for someone attached to the squadron which I am assuming your husband's sponsor is. They are running operations constantly. If he has any questions that I am allowed to answer and know I can help out. There isnt a lot that he will be able to tell him via email due to OPSEC and the ship's mission.

[Angie]

Do NOT worry about the ship right now..he hasn't even left the school house yet.  The Chief will take care of him :~} 

 

 

[meagan5220]

I only posted about that bc we were private messaging about the ship. He is joining my husbands ship. I accidently posted on here instead of a PM but thats what information I was trying to convey to her.