That's pretty much standard Navy wide. An out of bounds request is a training command-ism, and it doesn't give you free time to go out of bounds, it's just a CYA for the command so they know you're going out of bounds. As a student, I always thought the liberty radius was bogus, since the regs don't say anything about it, but the command has the right to be more restrictive. Now, after having to hunt down several guys who have worked for me while in the fleet after they haven't returned, I understand why the radius is there, painful, though it may be.