Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
Can a CO stop someone from taking terminal leave?I think it depends on a) what your command is willing to let you do...
Can a CO stop someone from taking terminal leave?I think it depends on a) what your command is willing to let you do...
Can a CO stop someone from taking terminal leave?
This.
I took 65 days of terminal (60 plus the 2.5 per month), and only double dipped for the last 3 weeks (just enough to ensure the paychecks were constantly flowing).
That time spent traveling around, sleeping in, and just decompressing with the wife was invaluable to me, my wife, and our relationship.
Seriously being able to say, "hey, let's get in the car and go to X" on a Thursday morning and not worrying about what's going on at work, who you have to tell, does it fit with the flight sked, etc ... is such a great feeling.
it's ok, he was on terminal leave, not terminal liberty.Being in your 30s and able to go outside the “liberty radius” without asking another grown man permission?
Blasphemy!
Time building; nothing it stopping me explicitly, but don't expect to get terminal approved.What's stopping you from starting a new job while on terminal leave?
I’ll let the financial experts correct me but don’t pay for a house outright. Use your VA loan and low interest rates and put the minimum down.Thanks everyone. Yeah, we'll see.
My current options for leaving AD are a CJO from an airline that I need to build the ME time for anyway and an application that seems to be progressing through the Air Nat'l Guard well. I am currently overseas so no option to build ME time for me.
Known hurdles I have: 1 wife, 2 kids; need to find a place to live, not really sure where we even want to live. If I do the Air National Guard, I suspect it will be near that base. If in scenario 3, will be gapped a pay check for ~ a month before taking a 50% pay cut with the airline.
- Ideal and most unrealistic world: I get approved Skillbridge and build hours and continue pay, start ground school day one I am out.
- Slightly more likely than unrealistic: I use terminal to do what I would have used Skillbridge for.
- Most likely from what I've seen/been told to expect by my chain of command: No Skillbrige or Terminal approved, have to sell back leave (or use a ton this upcoming year, which I'll be sure to just to mentally compress and put some deposits in the "family" bank). and spend a month doing the ME stuff before starting ground school at the airline, approximately a month after getting back to the states.
Assets: I've saved a ton and am prepared financially to leave; have considered paying for a house outright sans mortgage. Wife open to moving pretty much anywhere, she's willing to work, but limited by the fact that one kid will only be 2 by the time we get back to the US. I expect her current income potential to be limited to under $30k per year. Family in NY and MD.
Time building; nothing it stopping me explicitly, but don't expect to get terminal approved.
I’ll let the financial experts correct me but don’t pay for a house outright. Use your VA loan and low interest rates and put the minimum down.
Just curious why your command won't approve any terminal leave(seems kind of a dick-move blanket policy). Are they worried manpower won't provide a replacement until your actual EAS date? There should be some flexibility this far out from your command (I say this without knowing what kind of billet you're filling, and maybe it being harder to backfill bc OCONUS possibly).
What HAL said. Don’t buy until you know where you’ll be.With you on this from a pure Economics point of view (that was my major after all!) but from a "I'm at a regional and am concerned about my job security" aspect, I am considering it. With that said, I probably won't do it; but I recognize that's an asset of mine I could if I wanted to.
Great question. For as shitty as it is for me, I respect the guy who has set the policy and understand why he has implemented it and the fact that in my impression he has set the expectation straigt and held his standard makes it an easier pill to swallow than counting on it for 2 years then getting denied it. In short. his reasoning is "we are always telling Millington we are short on bodies and are understaffed. If I let people take terminal, then I am sending an inconsistent messages to them."
In my particular scenario, what makes it worse is I am also the only one in the command with a certain qual- I am trying to change that, but getting admin to get a new body sent to the schools I went to has proven less than easy. I'm also under the impression that they won't send a body until my PRD, terminal leave or Skillbridge, so it's not an easy sell to make.
Great question. For as shitty as it is for me, I respect the guy who has set the policy and understand why he has implemented it and the fact that in my impression he has set the expectation straigt and held his standard makes it an easier pill to swallow than counting on it for 2 years then getting denied it. In short. his reasoning is "we are always telling Millington we are short on bodies and are understaffed. If I let people take terminal, then I am sending an inconsistent messages to them."
Your CO is a bit misinformed. Millington isn't going to slash billets because your CO lets people go on terminal. In fact, it's likely to have the opposite effect where they formally see a demand signal for a new person and send the replacement sooner. Also a conversation to have at wardroom planning conferences to get the detailer on the same page.In short. his reasoning is "we are always telling Millington we are short on bodies and are understaffed. If I let people take terminal, then I am sending an inconsistent messages to them."
If someone has a large income relative to the mortgage payment or is guaranteed to live to 90, you're right - put the 20% down and invest the rest of the money to maximize the dollar amount earned in a lifetime (20% is required to avoid a VA financing charge that can get rolled into the loan).I’ll let the financial experts correct me but don’t pay for a house outright. Use your VA loan and low interest rates and put the minimum down.