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DOCURNT RESUME
06023 - (B1466513]
(Military Services' Policy of Advancing Leave to Enlisted
Personnel]. FPCD-78-30; B-125037. may 24, 1978. 9 pp.
Report to Secretary, Department of Defense; by H. L. Kriegerp
Direct cre Federal Personnel and Compensation Div.
Issue Area: Personnel Management and Compensation (300);
PerAonnel Management and Compensation: Equal Employment
Opportunity (302).
Contact: Federal Personnel and Compensation Div.
Budget Function: National Defense: Department of Defense -
Military (except procurement 6 contracts) 1051).
Organization Concerned: Department of the Air Force; Department
of the Army; Department of the Navy.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Armed Services;
Senate Committee on Armed Services.
Authority: 10 U.S.C. 701. 10 U.S.C. 704. DOD Directive 1327.5.
During the first 6 months of 1977, over 21,000 Army,
Navy, and Air Force enlisted personnel left the services with
unliquidated advance leave, owing the Government over $3.2
million. about two-thirds of this amcunt was recoa -d from the
meabers' final pay, but about one-third became an unsatisfied
debt to the Government. Advance leave is chargeable leave which
exceeds a member's current leave balance but does not exceed the
amount of leave that rill be earned during Lis current
enlistment. It provides a moans whereby service members with
limited accrued leave may be granted leave to resolve emergency
and urgent personal or morale problems. A test of 157 randomly
selected enlisted membcrs separated in an excess leave status
during the first half of 1977 showed that they were advanced 488
veriods of leave: 3.9% were for emergency purposes, 32% for
ange of duty station, and 27% for ordinary leave. Durinq the
latter part of 1977, over 270,000 enlisted personnel on active
duty had negative leave balances of about 2.6 million days,
representing an estimated ralue of about $113 million. Because
of the high attrition rate of first-term enlisted personnel, it
is difficult to have great expectations that the leave will be
earned by the members during the remaining term of their
obligated active duty. The Secretary of Defense shoult initiate
a program to generate an increased understanding and awareness
on the part of leave administrators of their responsibilities
for prudent use of authority to grant advance leave and to fully
inform service members early in their enlistments of their leave
rights and the consequences of imprudent or unnecessary use of
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