Sloppy Link,
Okay I understand now, it's either IE, LOA or a welfare package - but only the latter 2 can apply in this case due to declaration of field conditions. I believe that those are the cold facts sought by pumaengineer.
I do think that all this "dry your eyes", "man-up" and "should've worked harder" stuff is naive and plays straight into the hands of those that wish to erode everyone's various entitlements on grounds of cost. It does seem rather strange that on-base at D-M is regarded as field conditions and it must seem to those involved that this declaration has been made on the basis of saving money.