New leave policy will cut soldiers’ ‘free’ days off By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Wednesday, January 9, 2008
ARLINGTON, Va. — Soldiers who combine regular or special passes with leave will now have the total block of time charged as annual leave, according to a new Army policy.
Until now, soldiers doing a back-to-back pass/leave combination usually got charged only for the personal leave, with the pass time counting as “free” days off.
That was allowable under the Army’s old leave policy, which included wording that said “both leaves” could be taken in conjunction.
But those words conflicted with another section of the policy, which told commanders they were not allowed to approve back-to-back absences for soldiers without at least one duty day in between.
The conflicting passages were causing “major confusion, and some pretty creative interpretation,” Victor Bosko, the Army’s staff policy proponent for leave and passes, told Stars and Stripes by phone Monday.
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http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=51496uhc comment: This is interesting. The Air Force is giving more time off and the Army is cutting the free days. :wtf:
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