Anyone here from the National Guard?

[zagnut 0]

Riddle me this Batman,

 

I just got back from OEF this summer, and I'm in the Wounded Warrior Battalion at Ft Knox. I had about a month's worth of leave saved up, however, I also had Post Deployment leave for about 45 days; (It's like a bonus if you've deployed in the past). So, with this nice bonus from past work having been done on deployment, I had in the nieghborhood of about 65 days of total leave. Now, I took 18 days from July into August, and then came back for 2 weeks to take leave again with the idea of burning through this stuff before the fiscal year is over, and for fear of losing the Admin Leave, only to find out that there was a memo released from some 2 Star, somewhere in the BIG ARMY universe that proclamed any PDMRA leave accrued before Jan 2007 is now obsolete and will not be honored. WTF!?!?!?!?! I had 30 days left of that leave... Just taken away like that? How is it so?? Naturally, the pogue/morons here at WTB of course keep up with anything that is administraitively retarded and not a benefit to the troop or works in his best interest, so that memo was all in my face to morning I submitted my DA-31. Ok fine, this leave was desginated to be for my honeymoon, and Thank the Maker that I had normal leave in stock to cover the trip. We went to Hawaii, it was awesome: http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=4d4b09de1b8397bd6cbbd47cbb382743&sid=0CbNGTly3cMnMw. Go there so see some pics from paradise.

 

Anyways, my question is; has anyone else seen this memo, and has anyone taken action to save thier Leave?

 

Thanks

[+ST0RM 145]

I feel for ya. That sounds like another BS policy from some REMF General who probably got promoted over it. Since it was dated from 2007, your admin section should have notified you of the change in policy and those with accrued leave, to take it or lose it.

 

My Commander emailed me just this week to let me know that I was sitting on 84 days of leave and how I intend to use it before October 1st. I'm reenlisting tomorrow, so I'm selling back 35 days. And yes, I know it's better to use it, but I'm deployed or on the road 220+ days a year, so it's tough to do.

 

Hope you get it all straightened out.

 

-S

[+Dave 2,322]

Zag

 

You might want to fight harder on this, my bud John just got off 75 days of leave and has spent almost a total of 4 years in Iraq. So I know he had to have some of that leave from when he was there in 2007. (The guys loves it over there, do not know why). He is in UAV school at Ft Hauchuca now then he is going back for the 6th time I think it is. Maybe I should get you in touch with him. He is a guard puke too.

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Thanks for the replies,

 

I'm working with another guy from my state to get this straightened out. This came out of the Warrior Transition Unit (aka Wounded wariiors program), and they are pretty tough to deal with. I swear, I'm so close to the flagpole, it's going up my butt!