Vacation time for any person in the military. Every sailor gets the same amount of leave per month as every other one else. The only time this is different is when you are coming home from a foreign deployment or duty rotation, or when you are injured. In order to take leave you must fill out a request chit and have it signed by just about everyone in your chain of command.

Leave is your time away from work and you are allowed to let you hair grow and even grow a beard. However, when you come back off leave you had better get everything squared away.

Some leaves do not get counted against your total, such as convalescence leave, after injury. Basket leave does not count against your total, but is highly illegal and can get both parties in problems. This leave is when the personalman throws your leave papers in the trash when you return and they o not get counted.

During my time in leave was given at 2.5 days per month, or 30 days a year. Sailors could carry over 30 days so they could have a max of 60 days on the books. The only ones allowed more were those who were forward deployed, such as being in Japan. They were allowed 90 days total.