Posted on Sep 23, 2015
Should soldiers be given deployment leave or maternity leave?
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Would it be too much for Soldiers to get 2 weeks or more of free leave after 9-12 month deployment? Vs. the (Navy) and soon to be Army giving 18 Weeks of free leave for maternity?
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Apples v. Oranges. Leave & Liberty after deployment is granted at the Company & Battalion level --at the discretion of the commander. Maternity Leave is a matter of DoD policy.
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Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS
In addition, Maternity Leave is "Convalescent" (Medical) Leave for the first 6 weeks (Prior to the changes in DoN Policy). Generally speaking Males are granted permissive TAD instead (I was given 10 days when my son was born). One is accrued, the other is not.
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When it comes down to dollars and sense, I am not sure we can really afford a blanket policy to do this for every redeploying troop.
I believe I understand the comparison you are making by drawing on the similarities as related to the specific time involved for both situations.....(9 months deployed and 9 months pregnant - I believe that is where you are going with this SSG (Join to see))....with that in mind and the knowledge that 2-10 is one of the top three most deployed Brigades sized elements across the Army, I can see where your motivation (and potential frustration) is drawn to raise this question.
I believe I understand the comparison you are making by drawing on the similarities as related to the specific time involved for both situations.....(9 months deployed and 9 months pregnant - I believe that is where you are going with this SSG (Join to see))....with that in mind and the knowledge that 2-10 is one of the top three most deployed Brigades sized elements across the Army, I can see where your motivation (and potential frustration) is drawn to raise this question.
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They are two very different things. You can't really compare one to the other. I know of units that actually do give free leave even though that is not authorized following deployments. Something commanders can do instead is give a series of 4 day weekends. To be perfectly honest, we already get 30 days of leave a year. That is way more than anyone I know that isn't in the military. And if you were just deployed you should even have it saved up!
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Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS
The trade off is that we pay for weekends if we take them "lump sum." My wife gets 20 days Vacation per year, which don't include the weekends. So we are much closer to our civilian counterparts than we appear at first glance, and they generally have less hoops to jump through.
All that said, after both my deployments, we maximized block leave. Then maximized the liberty policy to best effect until the next work up began.
All that said, after both my deployments, we maximized block leave. Then maximized the liberty policy to best effect until the next work up began.
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Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS I've seen the same as well as far as block leave and liberty.
With regards to the 20 days and weekends, you're right. However a lot of companies don't give 20 days anymore. However they do at least have the option to take unpaid time off, which in the military we don't.
With regards to the 20 days and weekends, you're right. However a lot of companies don't give 20 days anymore. However they do at least have the option to take unpaid time off, which in the military we don't.
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Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS
LCDR (Join to see) - No doubt, and I'm willing to bet if Congress could figure out a way to trim down the leave policy they would for the military as well.
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