In 20 years, they never turned down my husband for leave. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen but it does sound odd to me. Especially for a death.
It happens…. My husband ( an AF major at the time) had a colleague (also an officer) who was denied leave to go see his mother who was dying of cancer. Their commander was a heartless SOB.
And nobody in Washington was involved in an E4’s leave request!
Yep, and especially for someone assigned to the Warrior Transition Brigade. It's not like he was on the short list for deployment. He was in limbo status as it were. Also, since when does any soldier need leave approval from a DA level authority? His immediate commander could grant him leave.
I saw it happen several times. Especially with someone who was having trouble in other areas.
When I was in the Navy, my division leadership tried to do this to me. Mind you, my ship was in the shipyard at the time. I requested captain’s mast, which everybody up my chain tried to talk me out of. My division officer was removed for-cause, and my department head and master chief got letters in their service records. The ship’s Captain noted that this action by my leadership had all the troubling signs of unreasonable and illegal retaliation although he was unable to ascertain any rationale for it.
I figured my life was going to be hell for the remaining 2 years of my enlistment, but they largely left me alone.
If you’re going to deny leave to one of your people that had a death in the family, you better think about that real hard.