I spent 14 weeks on SAIF SAREEA, 3 weeks in the UK, then 5 weeks on ops (over xmas and the new year), 2 weeks in the UK, 7 weeks in Northern America and then it was Easter!
I have 30 days anual leave, plus the 15 automatically carried over, plus another 15 I can apply to have carried over.
When am I expected to take this 12 weeks off? Under my units current tasking level, I will be lucky to get more than 3 weeks off for the rest of the year.
This is not unusual for anyone I work with, so when are we going to be paid for unused leave like many of our civilian counter-parts?
Oh, stop me now, I have just seen a 3 ship of P-1-gs flypast.
MATZ