DVIDS - News - 3. Engineer Brigade sends First Soldier on Rest and Recuperation (R& R) leave. JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq - The first Soldier to return home from Iraq for Rest and Recuperation leave reported today to the passenger terminal at Joint Base Balad. Army Pfc. Burks, topographic analyst for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3. Engineer Brigade (Joint Task Force Rugged), has spent a couple of months in Iraq. The R& R program is giving him a special opportunity to go home to Killeen, Texas, where he will reunite with his wife, Erica Burks, who is expecting to give birth to twin girls April 3. Pfc Burks is hoping to make it home before that day. I'm looking forward for the 1. Burks. The Defense Department announced last month that Iraq and Afghanistan have been designated as non- chargeable rest and recuperation locations, authorizing service members deployed there 1. If I took an R&R pass (4 days, non-chargeable), am I ineligible for R&R leave (15. Non/Chargeable leave begins 0001hours dayafter ServiceMember arrives commercialairport. The Defense Department announced March 22 that Iraq and Afghanistan have been designated as non-chargeable rest and recuperation (NCR&R.R& R leave program. Quarterly reports on use of Combat Mission Requirements funds. Non-chargeable rest and recuperation absence for certain members under-going extended deployment to a combat zone. 36th Engineer Brigade sends First Soldier on Rest and Recuperation (R&R) leave.
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