Hi, question. 30 days vacation in the U.S. Military... But...?

Question

This may be a little dumb. But do you get any other days off besided the 30? You probably do; you be exhausted. Just curious. Thanks.

Answer 1

its a use it or lose it type set up, but it depends on your commander, and plt ldr, and your plt sgt. if you will get it all at once, and that is because it depends on your training schedule.

oops , correction , yes you get fed hollidays and weekends off if you are not pulling duty

Answer 2

I agree with everyone about the 30 day leave but not the Mon-Fri work schedule. Not everyone gets a Mon-Fri schedule or Holidays off. My husband is missile security in the AF. He works 3 days in the missile field and does 12 hr shifts. He's supposed to have 6 days off but not necessarily. The first day he gets home from the field around 5p.m. Then at least 2 of the days are PT and training. There's always a possibility of a recall back t the base for an exercise or a situation. So he's pretty much on call most of the time.

Answer 3

All of this talk about 5 days a week, federal holidays, long weekends, etc. is fine and dandy, but it is NOT a given. You are on duty 24/7 unless you are signed out on leave. That is the only time that they cannot or will try not to call you back in unless there is an emergency. Talk to the cops who have to work every federal holiday. Aircraft maintainers who have to work the planes because of a holiday flyover, or a VIP visit to the troops over the holidays.
You can end up working 3 weeks straight with no days off, 12 hours a day. It happens! Or you can end up with a nice job that is strictly Mon-Fri, 7-4. But, you never know! Also, be prepared to give up at least one weekend a month for weekend duty, depending upon your career field. And be prepared for recalls at 4 or 5 in the morning. Or on the weekends.
A lot is job dependant and base dependant. One base had a high ops tempo, and hubby worked 5-6 days a week, 14 hours a day, plus 1 weekend a month. Next base, low ops tempo, 5 days a week, 8-10 hours a day, and 2 weekend duties a year! Current base... due to one annual scheduled event, hubby and th rest of his guys will never be able to leave the area during the Thanksgiving weekend.
But, those 30 days... once you are approved and sign out... you are finally on your time!

Answer 4

You get 30 days a year (2.5 ays a month) of paid or "annual leave" in the military. You an take those at your request, with approval from your chain of command. Unit commitments, deployments and training events will dictate whether or not you are GRANTED leave. You can save it up, there is a max limit to accrue, if you save up too much and dont use it they will either take it or buy the leave back from you but only one time in you career. You an also accrue combat leave when serving in combat, it is counted seperate from annual leave.

The military usually get holidays off and the associated days before or after the holiday, like the Friday after Thanksgiving , you are off Thanksgiving Day, the friday after and the rest of the weekend also called a "96" for the amount of time in hours you are off. You can also be granted a 72 hour liberty by thr commanding officer of your unit upon return from training or deployments, or assignments where you may need to go take care of personal or family business that may have been delayed in your absence.
The military gets a lot of time off. But they also spend a lot of time doing really mundane and seemingly pointless things-which they sometime are, but servicemembers are technically on duty 24 hours a day. A break here and there, some time to see your family or unwind with friends helps keep the stress levels lower as well.

Semper Fi!
Sgt USMC 92-03

Answer 5

30 days leave, every federal holiday provided you are not on duty (assigned a watch), and various other command grnated liberty.

I spent 10 years in the Navy on Submarines. When we were deployed, 3~6 months we got no time off. Upon return we would generally get a lot of liberty. (look at that as simply not required to aboard ship/on base) Generally we would get 1 or 2 weeks of 96 hour liberties. This means you can take off for 4 days, but have to back to muster (meet) and then you would be off again.

Generally speaking duty sections on submarines are port and starboard, meaning two duty sections. This means if you are on a ship you have every other day off. On shore commands the duty section can range from less than 5 section to as much as 60 section. In that case you would only actually stand a watch once eevry 60 days. So any federal holidays you get off. If you go on leave those holidays do count against you.

Answer 6

yes you get more days off in regular times. not so many right now though.

If you were out on like a 2 week training mission your company commander might give you a 72 or 96 hour liberty pass. you also get weekends if you are not in the field or have some set training.

Holidays off too unless training

one catch is that on normal days off you are only alowed to travel a certian distance from the base. meaning if you are stationed in Cali and you live in florida and get a 96 you have to obtain special permission to travel home. of course as long as you are back in time no one cares, but if your unit was called up for some reason you would be in trouble.

Answer 7

Yes.

There are 11 holidays that you get as a federal employee.

There are "down days" that the Wing or Base Commander can declare if the unit is doing a good job. Friday after Thanksgiving is a common one.

There are "passes" that they can give to individuals for outstanding work, as a reward.

There is "liberty" that they can give when you are deployed. It does not count as leave but you are allowed to leave the base and do some site seeing in the area. The Navy uses the term "liberty port" when a ship docks in a foreign nation and they let some of the crew loose.

There is comp time or R+R time if you have been in a combat zone and you come home. They can give you time off to recover and not charge it against your leave time.

There is time off for special family events such as downloading a child, religious holidays, or court appearances related to duty or adoption.

There is time off when there is simply nothing to do. If a unit's job is to fix planes and all the planes are gone for an exercise at another base, rather than having all the mechanics sitting around doing nothing, they may give some of them the day off.

Lastly, there is creative scheduling of leave time. Lets assume you take a Monday-Friday off for leave. Lets assume you arrange to have the weekend before and the weekend after off from duty. So by using five days of leave, you get nine days off. (You had just better make sure you get back to work on Monday because if you do not, you are 3 days AWOL already!)

But on the flip side, when it is time to hump butt, you hump butt. 16 hour days may be required to accomplish the mission and few troops want to fail in carrying out their mission.

RE: USAFBRAT.. It is pretty much a given you are in a 24/7 job as you say. However, even on leave they can call you back. So leave is not any different than other time off except you got more control of when you do it. Plus when you get out, if you got 60 days of leave coming, you can sell it back and get a nice hunk of change as you walk out the door.

Answer 8

Yes, of course. It depends on your command and their mission. Some work a steady 8 hour 5 days a week with sat/sun off. My command provides 24 hr coverage 7 days a week. You still end up working 5 days and 2 off a week (usually) but we do not have a set schedule. Your off days rotate based on many variables.

Answer 9

Yes you get other days off such as holidays and week ends as long as you do not have duty are it dose not enter fear with your mission the 30 days a year is like a vacation time in a civilian job but with pay

Answer 10

For the most part, the military (when in garrison) operates much like corporate offices. We get weekends off and we even get extended weekends on holidays...unless the unit is in training, deployed, or the person is just unlucky enough topull duty over the break.

Answer 11

Yes, the military gets days off, which are not counted as vacation days.