Originally Posted by KhalReblic23

Completely true. I've heard of this happening a couple times.

They leave you in places for whatever reasons all the time. Your spouse could be in a medical emergency, your kids in trouble, your parents dead, and you BETTER cover that flight still or your canned.

Well maybe that's an exaggeration, we'll let you burn sick days but you're on your own to get home. Doesn't matter if you're in Nashville, or Kuwait. Good luck.

Not counting things like taking vacation on the TDY and then being left in Spain to find your own way back since that's your "base"...