Military Deployment & Leave Center
Strictly speaking, "deployment" refers to activities required to move military personnel and materials from a home installation to a specified destination. For servicemembers and families, it has come to mean much more: the preparations and personal needs that need to be taken care of at home before, during and after deployment.
Military Leave!
What It Is and How It Works
Employees who must be off work longer than the 30- or 60-day limit are eligible to use their accrued annual leave if they desire to continue receiving pay. Once the annual leave expires OR if an employee elects not to use accrued annual leave, a personal leave of absence without pay must be requested and must be approved.
Bereavement Leave for Service Members
Learn more about nonchargeable, paid leave for eligible service members who experience the death of a spouse or child.
Domestic Deployment of the Military
The domestic activities of the U.S. military are governed by a complex web of laws. The key pillars of this framework are the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act, which have not been meaningfully updated since the 19th century. Designed for a dramatically different country than the 21st century United States, these laws give presidents broad authority to use military forces as a domestic police force, in violation of this country’s founding principles. State governors have even broader powers to deploy their own national guard forces.
Request Military Leave Forms, Information, and Rights
Eligibility
Employees who hold regular positions with 48% or greater appointments and are active members of a reserve component of the United States Military are eligible to receive paid military leave.
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