Keep reading. Military leave is an entitlement you earn for serving. Servicemembers accrue two and a half days of military leave for each month served. You can accrue this leave, but not indefinitely. Know the differences between the types of leave you may be able to use for the appropriate circumstance. You would not want to use your ordinary leave, for example, to go house hunting ahead of your next PCS move—why? Emergency leave is one of the most common uses of other-than-ordinary leave.
This leave is still chargeable against your balance but is used specifically for personal or family emergencies. The Emergency Leave status allows the service member a different priority of seating when it comes to traveling Space-A on government aircraft and other considerations. Often, the first indication that a service member especially those assigned overseas might need to take Emergency Leave is when notified of a family situation by the Red Cross.
The use of Emergency Leave may help justify your humanitarian reassignment request in some cases. This type is used when recommended by a military treatment facility, primary care provider, etc. In the event that care is provided under a civilian doctor, the commander or some portion of the chain of command will determine what is appropriate for medical leave—in conjunction with the advice of a military doctor.
A Moorish chief was an "emir," and the chief of all chiefs was an "emir-al. In today's Navy when you intentionally deceive someone, usually as a joke, you are said to have bamboozled them. The word was used in the days of sail, also, but the intent was not hilarity. Bamboozle meant to deceive a passing vessel as to your ship's origin or nationality by flying an ensign other than your own -- a common practice of pirates.
As any able-bodied seaman can tell you, a turn of a line around a bitt, those wooden or iron posts sticking through a ship's deck, is called a bitter. Thus, the last of the line secured to the bitts is known as the bitter end. Nautical usage has somewhat expanded the original definition in that today the end of any line, secured to bitts or not, is called a bitter end. The landlubbing phrases "stick to the bitter end" and "faithful to the bitter end" are derivations of the nautical term and refer to anyone who insists on adhering to a course of action without regard to consequences.
As required by 17th century law, British ships-of-war carried three smaller boats -- the boat, the cock boat, and the skiff. The boat -- or gig -- was usually used by the captain to go ashore and was the larger of the three. The cock boat was a very small rowboat used as a ship's tender. The skiff was a lightweight all-purpose vessel. The suffix "swain" means keeper, thus the keepers of the boat, cock and skiff were called boatswain, cockswain and skiffswain respectively.
Until , a boatswain's mate 3rd class in the Navy was called a cockswain. No self-respecting boatswain's mate would dare admit he couldn't blow his pipe in a manner above reproach. This pipe, which is the emblem of the boatswain and his mates, has an ancient and interesting history. On the ancient row-galleys, the boatswain used his pipe to "call the stroke. So essential was this signaling device to the well-being of the ship, that it became a badge of office and honor in the British and American Navy of the sailing ships.
Often an old salt will boast that he has had bokoo this or has done something bokoo times during his seafaring years.
The picturesque sound of the word "bokoo" may cause one to wonder how it came to mean "many" or "a lot. Like many foreign terms that have crept into our nautical lingo, "bokoo" is the inevitable product of generations of American seamen meeting peoples of other nations and adopting bokoo phrases from their languages for everyday shipboard use.
Bully boys, a term prominent in Navy chanties and poems, means in its strictest sense, "beef eating sailors. The item appeared so frequently on the messdeck that it naturally lent its name to the sailors who had to eat it. As an indication of the beef's texture and chewability, it was also called "salt junk" alluding to the rope yarn used for caulking the ship's seams. Bumboats, in spite of their name, were not waterborne geedunks piloted by bums or hobos. They are small boats used by native hucksters and gizmo salesmen to transport their wares to ships anchored in the storm.
The name is a hand-me-down from "boomboats" as the craft were once permitted to tie up to the boat boom of a ship. An early Low German spelling was "bumboat" and in that form it was taken up by American sailors. The term "mast" refers to the ceremony that takes place when the captain awards non-judicial punishment for regulation infractions or official recognition for "jobs well done. Consequently, the ceremony came to be known as "mast" in recognition of the locality of the presentation.
Chaplains, the military men of the cloth, are rightly named according to French legene. It seems that Saint Martin of Tours shared his cloak -- by splitting it in half -- with a beggar on a wintry day at the gates of Amiens, France. The cloak was preserved since it was believed to have been shared with Christ, and became the sacred banner of French kings. The officer tasked with the care of the cloak and carrying into battle was called the chaplain or cloak bearer.
Chaplain comes from the French word "chapele" meaning a short cloke. Later, priests or chaplains, rather than field officers, were charged with the care of the sacred cloak. Chaplains served aboard warships of many nations and in the British and American navies they collected four pence per month from each member of the crew. In return, they rewarded every seaman who learned a psalm by giving him six pence. Besides holding divine services, chaplains were charged with the instruction of midshipmen and the moral guidance of officers and men alike.
It wasn't until the 18th century that chaplains were permitted to dine in the wardroom. Previously, they messed in their own cabins although they were frequently invited to dine with the captain. Charley Noble is the enlisted man's name for the galley smoke stack or funnel. The funnel is said to have been named after a stern old merchant captain who discovered that the galley's smoke stack was made of copper and therefore should receive a daily polishing.
In today's Navy it is the custom to send green recruits to find Charley Noble, a hunt which causes endless amusement for the ship's veterans. One tradition carried on in the Navy is the use of the "chit. British sailors shortened the word to chit and applied it to their mess vouchers.
Its most outstanding use in the Navy today is for drawing pay and a form used for requesting leave and liberty. But the term is currently applied to almost any piece of paper from a pass to an official letter requesting some privilege. The crow the bird, not the rating badge was an essential part of the early sailors' navigation equipment.
These land-lubbing fowl were carried on board to help the navigator determine where the closest land lay when the weather prevented sighting the shore visually. In cases of poor visibility, a crow was released and the navigator plotted a course that corresponded with the bird's because it invariably headed toward land.
The crow's nest was situated high in the main mast where the look-out stood his watch. Often, he shared this lofty perch with a crow or two since the crows' cages were kept there: hence the "crow's nest.
British seaman, apt to be ashore and unemployed for considerable periods between voyages, generally preferred to live in boarding houses near the piers while waiting for sailing ships to take on crews. During these periods of unrestricted liberty, many ran out of money so the innkeepers carried them on credit until hired for another voyage. When a seaman was booked on a ship, he was customarily advanced a month's wages, if needed, to pay off his boarding house debt.
Then, while paying back the ship's master, he worked for nothing but "salt horse" the first several weeks aboard. Salt horse was the staple diet of early sailors and it wasn't exactly tasty cuisine. Consisting of a low quality beef that had been heavily salted, the salt horse was tough to chew and even harder to digest. When the debt had been repaid, the salt horse was said to be dead and it was a time for great celebration among the crew.
Usually, an effigy of a horse was constructed from odds and ends, set afire and then cast afloat to the cheers and hilarity of the ex-debtors. Today, just as in the days of sail, "dead horse" refers to a debt to the government for advance pay.
Sailors today don't burn effigies when the debt is paid but they are no less jubilant than their counterparts of old. Today the expression "devil to pay" is used primarily as a means of conveying an unpleasant and impending happening. Originally, this expression denoted a specific task aboard the ship as caulking the ship's longest seam.
The "devil" was the longest seam on the wooden ship and caulking was done with "pay" or pitch. This grueling task of paying the devil was despised by every seaman and the expression came to denote any unpleasant task. Ditty bag or box was originally called "ditto bag" because it contained at least two of everything: two needles, two spools of thread, two buttons, etc.
With the passing of years, the "ditto" was dropped in favor of "ditty" and remains so today. Before World War I, the Navy issued ditty boxes made of wood and styled after foot lockers.
These carried the personal gear and some clothes of the sailor. Today the ditty bag is still issued to recruits and contains a sewing kit, toiletry articles and personal items such as writing paper and pens. Dog watch is the name given to the and the watches aboard ship. The four-hour watch was originally split to prevent men from always having to stand the same watches daily.
As a result, sailors dodge the same daily routine, hence they are dodging the watch or standing the dodge watch. In its corrupted form, dodge became dog and the procedure is referred to as "dogging the watch" or standing the "dog watch. Webster defines dungaree as "a coarse kind of fabric worn by the poorer class of people and also used for tents and sail. The cloth used then wasn't as well woven nor was it dyed blue, but it served the purpose.
Dungarees worn by sailors of the Continental Navy were cut directly from old sails and remained tan in color just has they had been when filled with wind. After battles, it was the practice in both the American and British Navies for captains to report more sail lost in battle than actually was the case so the crew would have cloth to mend their hammocks and make new clothes.
Since the cloth was called dungaree, clothes made from the fabric borrowed the name. Members who complete basic or technical training may request 10 days of leave en route if their first duty station is in the CONUS within the states. They may request 14 days if going to an overseas assignment.
Excess Leave. Excess leave is granted for personal emergencies over and above the amount the member can earn before discharge, separation, or retirement. The total amount of accrued, advance, and excess leave cannot exceed 60 days for any one period of absence. A member will not receive disability pay, if injured, for time spent on excess leave; he or she is ineligible by law to receive disability retired pay or disability severance pay.
The only exception to the day limit is to give indefinite periods of unpaid absence to the member being processed for certain discharges as awaiting approval of a court-martial sentence. EML is authorized at an overseas installation where adverse environmental conditions require special arrangements for leave in desirable places at periodic intervals. Funded EML is charged as ordinary leave, but members are authorized to use DoD-owned or -controlled aircraft; plus, travel time to and from the EML destination is not charged as leave.
Unfunded EML is also charged as ordinary leave, but members are authorized space-available air transportation from the duty locations, and travel time to and from the leave destination is charged as leave. Regular Pass. A regular pass starts after normal working hours on a given day and stops at the beginning of normal working hours the next duty day.
This includes nonduty days of Saturday and Sunday and a holiday for up to 3 days total if a member normally works Monday through Friday or up to 4 days for a member who works a nontraditional works schedule, such as a compressed workweek.
The combination of nonduty days and a public holiday may not exceed 4 days. DoD or higher management levels may determine that a Monday or Friday is compensatory comp time off when a holiday is observed on a Tuesday or Thursday, in which case a regular pass may consist of a weekend, a comp day off, and a public holiday. Special Pass. Commanders grant special passes for unusual reasons, such as comp-time off, reenlistment, and special recognition.
The special pass may be for 3- or 4-day periods. Commanders will not grant special passes combined with regular pass or holiday periods when the combined period of continuous absence exceeds the 3- or 4-day limitation. Also, special passes may not be combined with leave. Special pass periods begin the hour the member departs from work and end when the member returns to duty. Members may be required to return in the event of an operational mission requirement such as a recall, unit alert, or unit emergency.
Members should always have their military identification card in their possession for identification purposes while on authorized absences from official duty. When it is essential to control authorized absences for security or operational reasons and other special circumstances, commanders can use DD Form , Armed Forces Liberty Pass. The new DoD leave policy allows six weeks of maternity convalescent leave to all active duty birth mothers, now offers six additional weeks to the primary caregiver and three weeks to the secondary caregiver.
Only one parent can be designated as primary caregiver, but Fathers can be designated as primary caregivers and granted six weeks or 42 days of parental leave, according to the new policy. For instance, if a mother needs to return to work and cannot take the six weeks of leave to care for the newborn, then the father could be designated as primary caregiver and use the allowed six weeks of leave versus only three weeks.
Terminal leave is chargeable leave used in conjunction with separation or retirement processing when a member desires to be absent on the last day of active duty. A member often uses this leave to accept employment that starts before his or her date of separation or retirement. Normally a member does not return to duty after terminal leave begins. Normally, the amount of leave taken cannot exceed the leave balance at the date of separation. Finally, Van Cleef and Martin realize Liberty is going too far.
The first day of Liberty , I was hanging around waiting for Ford to come in. But Liberty is always dipping his shoulder, whirling around. We are looking forward to working closely with this champion of liberty. Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes, manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive? He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty.
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