Posted on Jun 16, 2018
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If your on a 4 day and yoi do not answer yoir phone can you get a article 15 for it.
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SGT Joseph Gunderson
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Personal phone, I'm guessing. I've heard of it being attempted but it is easily fought. I had a 1SG once threaten to Art 15 me for my voicemail message being "unprofessional". The fact is that although you are a soldier 24/7, your phone is your personal property and in reality you aren't required to have one. If you are required it you would be issued one. Until the military gives you a specific stipend to pay for the phone or issues you one you can not be held in violation of anything for not answering a phone call. If they really want to push for it I would ask to take it to courts martial.
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SGT Joseph Gunderson
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SSgt Joseph Baptist - I think that is a different manner. If you are going to live off post it is your responsibility to make it to work when you are supposed to. It is completely within one's power to walk if need be to get to work. I have told my command that to perform certain duties, like when I had to go back and forth between two cities to pick up and drop off a soldier at a hospital, that they either had to furnish a vehicle or a government credit card for gas.
I made a point to shut off my cell phone for a few weeks after being told to change my voicemail. If they need you that bad they can send a runner.
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WO1 Ierw Student
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Would you say not answering your phone is justified if it is your emergency point of contact?
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SGT Joseph Gunderson
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WO1 (Join to see) - Why exactly would your phone be your emergency contact info? That makes no sense...
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LTC Kevin B.
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Not answering your phone? Maybe not. Not answering a specific call would probably be difficult to justify for the purposes of UCMJ. People miss calls all of the time (e.g. asleep, in the shower, etc.). However, this may be a bigger issue. Your not responding to a call from the unit can be a major issue, and may very well easily justify UCMJ. Even when people are on leave, the Army can revoke your leave and call you back in to the unit. It's the soldier's responsibility to remain available for contact whenever off-duty, on pass, or even on leave. That's why you have to provide contact information for alert rosters, on your pass form, on your leave form, etc. I even had to do that when on terminal leave.

So, is this simply a matter of you not answering a specific call? Or, is this an instance where you did not answer the call and refused to return the call(s) for the remainder of the weekend? If the unit believes you were purposely avoiding communication with them, simply because you were "off", that very well can justify UCMJ.
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SGM Bill Frazer
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It depends on the unit status- it could have be a recall, etc. might take a typing course too.
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