Hehehe...
This one is real... Sometimes the truth works...
On July 20, 1967, Petty Officer 1st Class David Jarvis Anderson submitted an unusual special leave request. His plea was simple.
“My wife is planning on getting pregnant this weekend,” he wrote, “and I would sure like to be there when it happens.”
Full article, HERE from Military Times.
Sometimes, ya just gotta take the bull by the horns, and be 'perfectly' honest with your Chiefs...
And most of the time it will work!
The Navy Chiefs had, by and large, been there and done that, so there wasn't much they hadn't seen or done in their careers. By the time they were Chiefs, they knew all the tricks the junior enlisted would try, and most of them would tromp on the 'outlandish' special requests.
I'm guessing this PN1 had his s**t together, and his department was caught up on the paperwork, so his Chief was fine with him getting a few days off. I went back and looked and he was asking for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday off. So really only one 'workday' per se.
One wonders what the 'outcome' of the weekend was??? :-)
now you have me curious lol
Course with county birth records and things like Ancestry.com, it probably wouldn't be too hard to find out if he was successful.....
(though I'm trying VERY hard to remind myself that a) I have a lot to do today and don't have time to start digging around on the internet and b) I should quit being a nosy old biddy.....)
That special request chit was legend in the Navy when I served, and versions of it were used by many people, usually effectively.