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??? 🙂
Well if you knew you’d have ’em laughing , I’da gone for the 96 .
This is the first mention that I found of it, I’d say that it worked.
https://ifunny.co/picture/my-mom-recently-passed-away-my-dad-found-this-going-2cJen1Qu8
One wonders what would have transpired had he said “girlfriend” instead of “wife”?
Boats- Agreed! 🙂
Justin- Thanks!
Flugel- LOL, you know the answer as well as I do…sigh
There was supposedly another request for special liberty because a wife was about to have a baby. The request was turned down with the comment “Although your presence was necessary at the laying of the keel, it is not required at the launching”.
Don- Yep, they used to say you could be there for conception or delivery, but not both…