Posted on Apr 16, 2020
Can you take your Cr balance leave days back to back with transition/terminal leave days when you are ETSing? How does that all work?
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I’ve seen like 10 different answers, just trying to get a clear explanation for how you can maximize your leave to figure out housing arrangements/other things while ETSing. Especially since now they’re saying because of COVID19, soldiers can save up to 120 days of leave.
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Credit balance leave is simply the amount of leave you currently have. Transition leave is not a separate balance of leave. Where your LES says ETS leave, that simply means from today until the day you ETS accruing 2.5 leave days a month, that would be your total balance if Use/Lose does not come into play. Your ETS balance = Cr Balance + unearned leave to ETS.
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Also, you shouldn't be fighting out housing arrangements or anything else during transition leave. If you utilized SFLTAP correctly, you will have already identified housing, job(s), and a transition plan. Transition leave is not the time to be figuring things out, it's the time to be putting into action the things you've spent the last year figuring out.
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SFC (Join to see) Big Roger that, it has been kind of a crazy final 12 months to be honest! I ETS’d from Virginia to Texas with less than a year left on contract, and then as soon as I got to Fort Hood and in-processed, we were sent on a rotation to Germany for 2 months for an exercise that ended up taking longer because COVID hit and all of the travel bans went into effect, so my command team kinda screwed me by sending me out there in the first place without allowing me to properly start the transition process. But I’m making do with what I’ve got, and I’ve secured a job already being 2 months from separation. Thank you for the insight!
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SFC (Join to see) Also, they’ve told me that my ETS balance on my LES is separate from my CR balance and that they cannot be combined, so I’m not really sure how to respond moving forward.
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If you have 140 days of leave, you can take 140 days of terminal leave (120 is the carry over cap you can earn over that as long as you use the leave before the end of the fiscal year).
I took 74 days of terminal leave when I left Active duty to go to the reserve component.
Another method is to take your leave a few months prior to ETS and do all of your last 6 months in the DOD skill bridge program.
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I took 74 days of terminal leave when I left Active duty to go to the reserve component.
Another method is to take your leave a few months prior to ETS and do all of your last 6 months in the DOD skill bridge program.
look it up
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