Importance of Knowing, Understanding, and Following Policy Letter #5
Importance of knowing,understanding, and following Policy Letter #5
It is important to know what the contents are of Policy Letter #5 because if you decided to go out and explore Kentucky or Tennessee on the weekend you will know how far you are able to travel from Ft. Campbell. If you travel outside of the 150 mile range and there is an emergency where you have to get back on post within a couple hours and you can’t make it you the consequences could be severe. Not only will you get yourself in trouble most likely one of your Sergeants will take the heat with you also. It’s pretty much going to be a domino affect after that because your Sergeants are going to be questioned about your whereabouts and they have no clue where you are and it makes them look bad. The possible consequences of being late to a formation is a warning for a first time offense but its up to your leadership if they will do it. The second consequence is a Article 15 with will probably lead to demotion, reduction in pay, and up to 45 days of extra duty. This could also lead to your leadership not trusting you anymore. Even though it is a process to get leave or a pass it much better than having take your hard earned money and work for free. Having a pass or going on leave was started so that your leadership can have accountability of you just in case one of these accountability formations pop up and they can tell the First Sergeant where you are. If your Sergeant doesn’t have accountability of you it makes the whole platoon look back even though its only one person at fault. It’s bad enough that you pissed off the First Sergeant but you should never wanna piss off the whole platoon for your actions. Theirs nothing wrong with taking sometime off from work but you should go through the proper channels to get leave or a pass to cover yourself.
There are 6 different types of leave and passes you can take: Passes (Regular Pass and Special Passes), Foreign Travel, Emergency
It is important to know what the contents are of Policy Letter #5 because if you decided to go out and explore Kentucky or Tennessee on the weekend you will know how far you are able to travel from Ft. Campbell. If you travel outside of the 150 mile range and there is an emergency where you have to get back on post within a couple hours and you can’t make it you the consequences could be severe. Not only will you get yourself in trouble most likely one of your Sergeants will take the heat with you also. It’s pretty much going to be a domino affect after that because your Sergeants are going to be questioned about your whereabouts and they have no clue where you are and it makes them look bad. The possible consequences of being late to a formation is a warning for a first time offense but its up to your leadership if they will do it. The second consequence is a Article 15 with will probably lead to demotion, reduction in pay, and up to 45 days of extra duty. This could also lead to your leadership not trusting you anymore. Even though it is a process to get leave or a pass it much better than having take your hard earned money and work for free. Having a pass or going on leave was started so that your leadership can have accountability of you just in case one of these accountability formations pop up and they can tell the First Sergeant where you are. If your Sergeant doesn’t have accountability of you it makes the whole platoon look back even though its only one person at fault. It’s bad enough that you pissed off the First Sergeant but you should never wanna piss off the whole platoon for your actions. Theirs nothing wrong with taking sometime off from work but you should go through the proper channels to get leave or a pass to cover yourself.
There are 6 different types of leave and passes you can take: Passes (Regular Pass and Special Passes), Foreign Travel, Emergency