Posted on Apr 20, 2016
Can you take transitional leave, say 60 days, in addition to requesting Early Separation for Employment?
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Yes..."ACCRUED LEAVE WILL BE USED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT POSSIBLE AS TRANSITION LEAVE IN CONJUNCTION WITH EARLY SEPARATION."
Ensure you're reading the MILPER/ALARACT messages that pertain...your ETS will be adjusted and THEN you'll submit your transition leave. No one should be forced to sell accrued leave.
http://www.armyreenlistment.com/drawdown-voluntary-separation.html
Ensure you're reading the MILPER/ALARACT messages that pertain...your ETS will be adjusted and THEN you'll submit your transition leave. No one should be forced to sell accrued leave.
http://www.armyreenlistment.com/drawdown-voluntary-separation.html
Enlisted Voluntary Early Separation Program
The Enlisted Voluntary Early Separation Program authorizes commanders to approve early separation prior to contractual ETS for Army enlisted Soldiers...
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Tracking. G1 tried to tell me that meant that terminal leave was part of the 180 days which made no sense to me.
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SGM Matthew Quick
Understand your frustration, but this will be a commander's call...can be released UP TO 180-days early.
Commanders have to make calls based on many factors, i.e., will your replacement be ready prior to your departure?
Commanders have to make calls based on many factors, i.e., will your replacement be ready prior to your departure?
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SSG Allan Ortiz
Do you subtract 15 days from ETS Balance to determine the exact days to be used for transition leave? I was told from S1 since I was requesting 6-months out for employment. Is this right or I can use my total ETS balance?
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I am doing the early sep and currently waiting for my packet to come back from brigade. I submitted the leave form with the packet, originally requesting 60 days. It has been approved by the LTC and Commander. When I submitted it, throughout the time my ETS balance was 45 days. Currently, I have 38.5 but of course, these days reflect until my original ETS date, which in February. My new ETS is in September. Why did they approve my leave? Since I have 38.5 that amount is considered until febuary. So wouldn't I have 22 days technically if my balance is 38.5 currently with a current acural of 17? My orderly room told me I had to redue this but I'm still confused as to why it got approved with the control number in the first place.
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Leave is leave, if the transition leave is approved it will usually be included in the separation date determination. This is something that has to be worked in advance.
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You can. When filling out your leave chit, make sure to check off separation as a type of leave and put your details in the comments section "Respectfully request permission to take 60 days of leave for separation of service and employment oppertunites." Something like that.
Make sure your CoC signs it. It will have to go to your O-6. That's what I did when I requested SEP leave when I was active. Usually response time is within a week to a month, depending what the command is doing (Mine was a month since I was on deployment).
Make sure your CoC signs it. It will have to go to your O-6. That's what I did when I requested SEP leave when I was active. Usually response time is within a week to a month, depending what the command is doing (Mine was a month since I was on deployment).
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For standard leave I understand the process. What I am being told is that I can not request 180 days early separation and take terminal leave before, which I do not understand how. I am being told that I need to request 180 days minus the number of days I would be taking for terminal leave so that my early separation request and terminal leave combined do not exceed 180 days.
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You can request approval for this...I believe it would be at the level of the first O-6 in your chain of command.
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Basically my LTC and I were under the impression I could request 180 days early separation in order to accept employment. I would also then base my terminal leave off of the new ETS date. What I am being told now by my G1 is that apparently the MILPER message means (open to interpretation I guess) that my earliest ETS date would be 180 days minus and leave I would take as terminal. I am just looking for a definite understanding of the situation good or bad, also because I need to know when my last day in the office will be.
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Check with you instruction based on leave to make sure. You don't want to have the impression it will be processed when it won't.
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