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I have recently transferred to this unit In November. I have not had a MUTA 4 drill sense January. In February we had a muta 10 in March they had me at CLS for 5 days and on Friday I just got back from a week long school. I have AT coming up which is 27 days. I make way more money on the civilian side and I have not been able to collect a steady paycheck due to all these trainings. I can not afford my medical insurance for my family through Tricare because of all the missing full pay checks and I am behind on other bills. Are there ways to miss AT to get my life back on track financially?
LES
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SPC (Join to see), your best and ONLY bet is to speak with your Chain of Command. They are the ONLY ones that can tell you yes or no.
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I suppose you have no leave saved up at your civilian job (and your job has no paid military leave). Regardless, to answer your question, you may able to miss AT if your command allows it, but AT is often the biggest training event of the year for guard units, making missing it for those units extremely hard. You can try and explain it to your Chain of Command, but it is not a guarantee. These are things you should have planned for when you enlisted. And, even if you were allowed, you will still have an UNSAT year on your record if you don't make it up somehow. I will say that if you have a valid reason, and a valid plan to make up AT, then it is more likely your command will allow it (many units allow Soldiers to attend schools and other missions in lieu of AT as well). Bottom line is, talk with your CoC about it, but work on a contingency plan if they won't grant you permission to miss it.
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So I had planned on one weekend a month and two weeks a year not a crazy amount of muta 10s and 28 day AT. I have used my PTO from work on most of these events but I do not get a lot of PTO from work and now I am out for the year and it’s only April. Thank you for your response CW2.
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Yeah that a lot of training for a guard unit. You gearing up for a deployment or something? This is an infantry unit right? Regardless, my recommendation stands, talk with your CoC.
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Best chance is to get a letter allowing you to miss AT from your company commander. I have skipped a couple ATs because of finances and academic reasons. Normally you will have to make up the time in another way. Being supply it should be pretty easy to find something to do in off time.
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