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I was given less than 36 hours notice back in 1988 LOL.
I was supposed to go to Ft. Bragg out of Airborne School. On the Friday of graduation, when we were finally released at 1700 hours, I was handed a set of orders to Germany. Because I didn’t put in for leave, the orders were to fly out of Virginia at 0700 Sunday morning. My payroll was all screwed up so hadn’t been paid for two months, and ATT (the old Army travel service) was already closed for the weekend. I had no way to get to Virginia, so they had to scramble to put me in for Emergency Leave so I could get my pay straightened out.
Nobody notified USAREUR so I was listed as AWOL, and received a Counseling statement personally signed by the 3rd Armor Division commander when I showed up a week late. The counseling statement actually stated I was “an embarrassment to my Squadron, my Brigade, the 3rd Armor Division, and the United States Army”
The Army at its finest...