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I received a involuntary seperation, at the the time I had 11 years of service and 65 days of leave accrued. I was only paid for 30 of those days as I already sold 30 days earlier in my career. Recently I have begun to wonder if I should have been placed on terminal leave for those extra 35 days and if so do I have a recourse to claim pay for those 35 days and if so how. thank you
Hi Anthony,
Afraid not. Terminal leave is not a "right." It is a privilege that your unit commander can authorize, or not authorize, as he/she sees fit. I've never seen a case (not once) where terminal leave was granted in conjunction with an involuntary separation.
Selling leave is a "right," under Federal law, but the law only allows one to sell a maximum of 60 days during a career. This is why you were allowed to sell those 30 days, upon your separation, as it was a "right," granted by law. Terminal leave, however, is not a "right."
Hope this helps!
Rod Powers
http://usmilitary.about.com
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Rod Powers
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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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