2007-05-30 04:21:04 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
All branches of the military get 30 days annual leave. The service member can request leave at any time, however, the service members leave can be denied due to mission requirements. In other words, if a unit is deploying to Iraq in two days, a service member can't say they want to take 30 days of leave.
The service member may keep up to 60 days of leave on the books at a time. They can have upto 30 days use or lose leave. This usually occurs when a member can't take leave, or wishes to not take leave during a years time, and saves their leave. The commander should encourage a service member to take 30 days of leave per year, but that the mission usually overrides ones request for leave.
In addition to that, service members can also recieve passes for doing good. A pass is nothing more than a day off. Every non-deployed service member recieves a 2 day pass each week. Saturday and Sunday. Sometimes we will recieve a 3 or 4 day pass to be taken with the weekend. This doesn't include holidays.
In a years time, a service member could be given about 140 days off. You figure, you get 2 day off each week, that is 104 days per year, then on top of that, 30 days of leave, and then include about 10 federal holidays. Now, some place give an extra day here and there, so a service member could get almost 150 days off per year. Before people start writing to their congressmen, we could get called in on those days off to work too.
I had to come to work at 3am on Memorial Day and work a few hours. So it has its down side as well.
2007-05-30 04:52:29 · answer #1 · answered by George P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soldiers as well as Marines, Sailors, and Airman earn 2.5 days leave per month of active duty service. That means after one year of service they can take a 30 day leave. I challenge anyone to name any civilian, non government job that gives that much vacation time
2007-05-30 11:36:22 · answer #2 · answered by Douglas K 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
N O, We only take at least 1 to 2 weeks off a year,
and not all at once!!
2007-05-30 11:43:29 · answer #3 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not recently. Usually they get "leave" of one to four weeks. And that's now after 15 months of active duty. So no i wouldn't say they get long vacations.
2007-05-30 11:31:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They get 30 days a year. Some take it all at once, and some don't. They spread it out.
2007-05-30 11:24:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
they get 30 days of leave a year. they may take it as they wish.
2007-05-30 11:23:15 · answer #6 · answered by ROC 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
no. When they get leave, they only get a certain amount of days.
2007-05-30 11:23:38 · answer #7 · answered by maggi r 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Only when we are dead, till then we are killin time, waiting for time to kill us :-P
2007-05-31 07:52:13 · answer #8 · answered by conranger1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yaaah right !!!!
2007-05-30 11:24:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
No.
2007-05-30 11:24:38 · answer #10 · answered by Brotherhood 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋