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Mr Powers
Im wondering if you can help me on the subject of military leave. My son has been working in something called seal metering program for the past 6 months to get into the navy seals. He is due to leave soon and my question is this. How often will he be able to leave to come home? With the war, and all the training seals do, how do these guys ever get time off? When he is based, am I or other family members allowed to visit him? Im not sure how any of that woks. An of course im speaking of the time after he gets through Buds.
Thanks for the help
- Jim
Hi Jim,
Everyone in the Military, regardless of duty or job earns 30 days of leave per year (at the rate of 2.5 days per month).
Everyone "earns" the leave, but when one is authorized to actually take the leave days earned, is dependent primarily upon mission requirements.
SEALS (and other Special Ops Forces) do get to take their leave. However, they may not get to take it at the exact times they may want. Your son also probably won't get many chances to take 30 days leave all in one shot. More likely he will be given leave throughout the year, at one or two week intervals.
After your son arrives at his first duty base, you will most certainly be allowed to visit him. He will likely be traveling a lot, but during periods when he is not traveling, once the training duty day is over, he's on his own free time.
For more information about the United States Military, feel free to visit my U.S. Military Information website at: http://usmilitary.about.com
Hope this helps!
Rod Powers
http://usmilitary.about.com
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Rod Powers is considered one of the premire experts about U.S. Military career information on the planet. He has more than 30,000 articles about U.S. Military career information on the About.com U.S. Military Careers Information website at: http://usmilitary.about.com. Additionally, he is the author of "ASVAB for Dummies," "ASVAB AFQT for Dummies," (available in Dec 2009), and "Veteran Benefits for Dummies," all published by Wiley Publishing. He is also the author of "Barrons' Guide to Officer Candidate School Tests," published by Barron's Educational Series.
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Rod Powers is a retired Air Force first sergeant, with 23 years of active duty service, 11 of those years as an Air Force First Sergeant. He has helped thousands of military members, recruits, and military applicants since he took over the About.com U.S Military Careers Information site in 1999. He has a reputation for "telling it like it is," so questions may not be answered based on "what you want to hear," but will be answered based of the bast available information, concerning the service/situation.
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Rod is a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Noncommissioned Officers Academy, the Air Force Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy, and the Air Force First Sergeant Academy. He also holds an Associates Degree in Personnel Administration from the Community College of the Air Force (CCAF).
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