Hey all, quick question about liberty. The Memorial Day weekend is coming up and I would like to travel home to see family. The radius is 500 miles, and out to 600 with a special liberty chit. Anything more than that requires leave, and I don't have much accumulated at this point.
From my command to home is 585 miles straight line radius, but is 714 miles by road. Which number does the command look at when processing a special liberty chit?
NO problem, innocent question. You don't have a lot of leave to burn, trying to figure out how to fill out the paperwork
Words explaining why its important to you and the fiancé pressures.... then... I don't see why they would even offer the special liberty radius if they aren't willing to allow anyone to utilize it. We shall see.
Your lacking of acceptance response to the group of individuals saying they wouldn't sign off you chit based on the info given when they're telling you that the way to calculate it, you are outside of the limits you listed. You're legitimizing the dangers associated with breaking the liberty bounds with your survival through life so far...
I may have failed to mention that the 500 mile radius requires no paperwork whatsoever, 600 requires the spec lib chit and in both cases you must drive. You will not be charged leave if you drive. If you fly any distance leave is required, and anything beyond 600 miles requires leave.
It seems pretty obvious that you're sweating a couple days of leave and looking to relieve your family/friend pressures in a way that won't require you to take any.
Well, I'm certainly not trying to piss anyone off by going to see my family. And I do see and respect everyone's views on "pushing the limit" vs. the reward of my precious "3 days at Mommy's house." I'm not really here to justify my reasons for going back. I'm not experiencing the feeling of a devil on my shoulder saying it's a bad idea. I just wasn't sure how they grant the special lib in terms of distance. If they think it's dangerous or too risky in terms of returning on time it won't be the end of the world. I will then have 4 full days of amazing Florida weather and beaches. I'll manage.
Regardless, at this point....
You tried to justify your reasons for going back in your second post... We keep beating the dead horse because it seems that you keep posting to bring up caveats that you hope will change the responses more in your favor.
Hence why I asked how they calculate the mileage.
And you got the answer after your first post. You probably feel like were picking on you, but were not- we're reacting to the perception that you are creating of yourself.