One of the great benefits of today’s military is Leave. The Leave program is designed to allow service members to use their authorized leave to the maximum extent possible. The leave program allows service member to relieve the pressure and stress of today military duty. To spend time with families, take care of emergency and just relax and recuperate.
 
There are multiple types of leave service members will come in contact with and they include:

• Accruing Leave – Service members on active duty earn 30 days of leave a year with pay and allowances at the rate of 2.5 days a month.

• Advance Leave – is chargeable leave granted in anticipation of the accrual of leave during the remaining period of active duty and may be granted for: emergency, urgent personal or moral problems, accession, or PCS (permanent change of station) move.

• Convalescent Leave – is non-chargeable absence from duty granted to expedite solder’s return to full duty after illness, injury, or childbirth.

• Excess Leave – is non-chargeable absence granted for emergencies or unusual circumstance or as otherwise specified.

• Environmental Moral Leave (EML) programs in Overseas Areas – is a chargeable leave programs established at overseas locations to make use of space-available travel or commercial transportation.

• Ordinary Leave – Service members can take on the average 30 days of ordinary leave a year.

• Pregnancy Home Leave – is chargeable leave (ordinary, advanced, excess) requested by a service member to return home or another place for maternity care or the birth of a child

• Rest and Recuperation (R&R) Leave – Designated Area - is a chargeable leave program that authorizes us of ordinary leave to allow service members leave away from hostile fire and imminent danger areas.

• Special Leave Accrual – the intent of special leave accrual is to provide relief to solders who are not allowed leave when undergoing lengthy deployment or during periods of hostility

• Transition Leave (formerly called terminal leave) – is a chargeable leave granted together with transition from the service, including retirement.

Note:

• The leave program is designed to encourage the use of leave as it accrues rather than to accumulate a large leave balance. Soldiers who build their leave balance to the maximum level risk losing their leave should a situation accrue that prevent or delays leave use. Members do not accrue leave when:

• absent from duty without leave

• on excess leave (leave without pay)
• confined as a result of a sentence of a court-martial