• To find whether leave is required or not, please see the outline at the bottom of this page.
• To fill out a request, follow the steps below

Step One:  Obtain permission from your professors (for any missed classes) AND your Program Officer.

Step Two:  If you are taking Leave outside the US, follow the Off-Duty Foreign Travel guidelines posted here: http://intranet.nps.edu/security/foreigntravel.htm

Step Three:  Log on to AF Portal, Click the LeaveWeb link, and select Goodfellow for the base to open a normal Leaveweb transaction. If you get this error message: “Leave cannot be created for a member assigned to the @@ Unit”, please contact the POM Finance personnel. Contact info here: http://www.nps.edu/Students/ArmedServices/AirForce/DLI.html

Step Four:  Enter Approving Official*. If not approved w/in 2 duty days, send him/her an e-mail, since the automated notifications occasionally do not work

• • Your Leave Request has been Validated by the Unit Leave Monitor
  • LeaveWeb Tracking ID: $3d%!Edg
  • Leave Authorization Number: EX00011
  • Leave Dates: 12/18/2009 - 12/29/2009
• Cut and paste these 4 lines into the NPS Miss Muster Request form (next step)

Step Five:  Fill out and submit the Leave/Liberty/TDY Check Out Form. Cut and paste the 4 lines from your LeaveWeb message (shown above) into the “Comments” section of the form. If approved, you will receive an email authorizing you to miss muster. If you do not receive this email, you are not authorized to take leave/liberty/TDY.

Step Six: When you return, Complete the LeaveWeb request Part III (Return From Leave).

*Note: Lt Col Patrick Whelan is the leave approval authority for Air Force Students at Naval Postgraduate School. Please contact him for stateside and overseas leave requests. E-mail  pjwhelan@nps.edu Phone: 656-2873, DSN prefix: 756-XXXX. If traveling overseas, you need to contact Will Costello at the NPS Security Office and review material for the travel location. E-mail: securitymgr@nps.edu Phone: (831) 656-2450.   

Mustering, Leave, and Liberty:

• Mustering is required for all duty days. At NPS that's typically M-F, except holidays.
  
• When you muster, you're stating that you are in the NPS Commute Area and ready to report if called.
  
• Therefore, anytime you are outside the commute area on a duty day, or anytime you will miss duty, you must either be on Leave or an approved Pass (or TDY or other status as listed below).
  
• Weekends are considered Liberty time. You may go outside the NPS Commute Area on weekends without requesting to miss muster. Liberty is extended to 72 hours on federal holidays (President's day, MLK, etc.). Liberty is extended to 96 hours on special, approved holidays (only as announced-usually 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years).
  
• During NPS Winter/Summer Break, and E-Week:
  
  1. Mustering is required on weekdays during breaks/E-Week, unless you have an approved Leave, Pass, Permissive TDY, or TDY.
     
  2. Passes and Leave are not required if you stay within the NPS commute area
     
  3. Permission from Professors and Program Officer not required during these times only

Leave is required:

• For any amount of time outside CONUS (when travelling to a foreign country, remember to follow the Foreign Clearance Guide)
  
• For >72 hours outside the NPS Commute Area (or 96, on approved holidays)
  
• When missing >72 hours of Duty time, OR going >72 hours without Mustering
  
• Example: Travelling outside the NPS Commute area Thursday - Sunday
  

Miss Muster request is required::

• For a Pass
  
• Missing a duty day and not mustering for a period <72 hours; usually this is in conjunction with going outside the NPS Commute area.
  
• For Passes, the Liberty boundary is CONUS
  
  • Example: you travel to Lake Tahoe Fri and return Sun.
    
  • Example: You fly to Boston and back Fri-Sun
    
• Miss Muster request is also required for other absences from duty: Leave, TDY, PTDY, convalescent leave, etc.