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  2. Leave (U.S. military) - Wikipedia

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    Leave is accumulated at the rate of 2.5 days per month. [1] A member's leave is annotated in the monthly Leave and Earnings Statement. Under 5 U.S.C. § 6323 (a) (1), civilian federal employees who are reservists are allowed “15 days” of annual paid leave for reserve or National Guard training. [2] Prior to 2000, the Justice Department, as ...

  3. Leave (military) - Wikipedia

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    Leave (military) In military forces, leave is a permission to be away from one's unit, either for a specified or unspecified period of time. The term AWOL, standing for absent without leave, is a term for desertion used in the armed forces of many English-speaking countries. Various militaries have specific rules that regulate leaves.

  4. Stop-loss policy - Wikipedia

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    Stop-loss policy. In the United States military, stop-loss is the involuntary extension of a service member's active duty service under the enlistment contract in order to retain them beyond their initial end of term of service (ETS) date and up to their contractually agreed end of active obligated service (EAOS).

  5. Section 8 (military) - Wikipedia

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    Section 8 was a category of military discharge employed by the United States Armed Forces which was used for servicemembers judged mentally unfit for service. This type of discharge was also often given to cross-dressers, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender personnel in the U.S. military.

  6. Oak leaf cluster - Wikipedia

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    Department of the Army. Department of the Air Force. Status. Currently in use. An oak leaf cluster is a ribbon device to denote preceding decorations and awards consisting of a miniature bronze or silver twig of four oak leaves with three acorns on the stem. It is authorized by the United States Armed Forces for a specific set of decorations ...

  7. Temporary duty assignment - Wikipedia

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    Temporary duty travel, also sometimes referred to as Temporary Additional Duty (TAD) in the US Navy and US Marine Corps, is a duty status designation reflecting a US Government Employee's official travel or assignment at a location other than the employee's permanent duty station. This type of secondment is usually of relatively short duration ...

  8. General Orders for Sentries - Wikipedia

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    General Orders for Sentries. Orders to Sentry is the official title of a set of rules governing sentry (guard or watch) duty in the United States Armed Forces. While any guard posting has rules that may go without saying ("Stay awake," for instance), these orders are carefully detailed and particularly stressed in the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine ...

  9. Active Guard Reserve - Wikipedia

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    The Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) is a United States Army and United States Air Force federal military program which places Army National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers and Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve airmen on federal active duty status under Title 10 U.S.C., or full-time National Guard duty under Title 32 U.S.C. 502(f) for a period of 180 consecutive days or greater in order ...