Military Leave + Paternity Leave
Hi! I am very new to this but my husband just received his ship out date for Basic Training and he will be leaving when i’m 20 weeks pregnant (4 weeks from now). He returns from Basic/AIT just 3 days shy of my due date and I wanted to know if anyone has gone through this? From what I read, once he completes AIT he is eligible for paternity leave in the military, however, my husband is concerned that he will “look bad” at his civilian job since he’ll already be gone for 4 months and immediately is requesting his paternity leave shortly after. He is National Guard by the way.
Has anyone had an experience like this or just have good guidance if he’s maybe just overthinking it? he is a very involved father so he is struggling with the idea of not requesting paternity leave (from civilian job) so he can be with us but is also torn as that’ll put his leave at 5 months total.
Thank you and sorry if this post wasn’t relevant. 😅