Originally Posted by rickair7777

There may be some confusion here. If you have a hard separation date, perhaps due to HYT, working until the last day and then cashing out leave would make more sense if you don't have a job lined up.

But if you can control your exit date and have something to be doing after that, then terminal leave after your desired exit date is the way to go...you get full allowances the whole time and earn a few extra days of leave in the process.

De-MOBing reservists should absolutely take terminal leave, regardless of what you are doing or not doing after de-MOB.