Originally Posted by
caddis
Dirty
First and foremost you do not need CP approval for ML. They can NOT deny mil leave because it falls on a holiday or they are short staffed.
To answer your question though the form is on Deltanet on the CPSC page it is a fill in the blank sheet that goes to your CP.
That being said they can and will call you to verify the mil leave and they may call your commander or equivalent to see about your mil leave. For example if you take one day of Mil Leave on 25 December you can pretty much expect a call to your CC. Both times this year I have had mil leave over a holiday I received a call from one of the CPs. I did not feel threatened or harassed and I had no issues. Since then I have gone in and introduced myself to the CP so he can put a name to a face.
Unfortunately this policy is in place because there are a VERY FEW guys that may be cheating the system.
Agree that you can drop any and all military days you need. That said, I think the question was with regard to dropping days without any chief pilot involvment. Military guys can go it and drop military days via iCrew. 99% of the time your schedule is automatically and instantly adjusted to reflect the days you just dropped. However, if you try to drop over a holiday you'll get an error message on iCrew saying to contact your chief pilot. This is when a form of some sort is required. In addition, if you attempt to drop more than 30 days in a row you need to fill out a form or send in a letter.
I dropped about 6 months last year and all it took was a simple letter from my command saying the dates I was to be gone. My CP took this 6 months were dropped, no questions. No one ever checked up on me (that I'm aware of) either.
There is a list of dates (at least there used to be) on DeltaNet that represented the "holiday" days that needed CP involement for dropping. If you look around you can probably find it. As I recall there were 15ish days per year.
Cheers,
ranger