Talk:Leave (military)

AWOL is not necessarily desertion
In U.S. military usage, the term Absent Without Leave is used for a service member's initial defection from duty. Only after 30 or more days gone is the AWOL trooper classified as a deserter. Or at least, so it was when I sometimes served as a makeshift legal clerk.

Georgejdorner (talk) 22:58, 16 August 2013 (UTC)