Most deployments are uneventful and when your loved one returns home
they returns to healthy family and friends. However in the event that
someone in the immediate family becomes gravely ill or dies you should
know what to do. Below is information on how to go about getting
emergency leave.
Keep in mind, that your loved one CANNOT use emergency leave just
to come home and spend a few days.
1. Contact your local Red Cross chapter (the Red Cross message has to
come from the local office of where the emergency is at)
2. Give the Red Cross the following information
A. Military members name and Rank / Rate
B. Social Security Number
C. unit/command/ship (homeport of ship)
D. name of person ill or deceased and relation to the person
F. name of the Doctor caring for the ill or deceased
G. name of hospital where ill or decease is
This only applies to immediate family.
(Father, mother, siblings, spouse, or children)
However there are special cases allowed when the person ill or deceased
was the legal guardian of the military member.
Check with your command to make sure that these are the
appropriate steps to use when Emergency leave is needed.
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