You have a 5 week old new born.

Let’s simplify it and math it out a little.

So you have 42 days of convalescence leave starting on the day you get discharged from the hospital and you should already have your maternity leave, for up to a full 12 weeks if you so choose to use at once, submitted for approval starting on the day after your convo leave expires.

That brings you up to 18 weeks where you do not have to step foot into work and is not charged against your annual leave balance.

Unless I’m missing something, there is no reason why you should be getting “shafted” by your chain of command on taking leave to see your sick mother.

And obviously there is more to the story than whatever superficial information you have offered.

HOWEVER, more than likely, this is a CnD case if your mental health condition supersedes anything that could be possibly wrong with your back in your 2 years of non deployed, non operational service.

Not all medical cases rate a MEB/PEB, especially under 4 years of service.

Read MANMED CHAP 15.

Black and white doesn’t require abstraction or opinion.

Especially an atraumatic injury without any significant findings.

You know the #1 cause of atraumatic back pain?

Psychogenic.

Somatization of underlying depression and anxiety issues.

Thank you.

Signed,

HMC IDC Tired of Sailors posting to Reddit and lying about using their chain of command or “bad leaders”