What would be a red cross emergency to have my husband sent home?

You call red cross for death situations only, in the immediate family. If his mom is getting worse, and the doctors are saying that she's not going to make it, you need to get official documentations from the doctors, then call red cross, tell them the situation and then they'll get ahold of your husband. They always send them home for immediate family deaths, ALWAYS. They will also send them home for the birth of your child, but he will only get two weeks, in my situation, my husband only got two weeks, which is the basic leave for R&R. Hope you're mother in law gets better, my prayers are out for her, you, and your husband and baby. Best wishes and congrats on the baby!

if she is in imminent danger of dying. as in a few days left. when you contact the ARC they will contact the doctor and get the details. they will then determine whether it qualifies and inform the CO who will then determine if he can spare your DH. and yes,even if she does die there is no guarantee he can come home.

he can come home for that. Ive work with alot of military personnel in the middle east and they allowed to return home for dying relatives other than grandparents.

The first thing to do is go ahead and call the Red Cross - they will tell you what their policy is and that way you do not have to rely on less than accurate answers in Yahoo Answers. It doesn't cost anything to call the Red Cross. However, from experience, it sounds like this may be a good cse for Red Cross notification. Second: the military is under no obligation to do anything following a Red Cross notification. All the Red Cross does is provide a service to the military, where the Red Cross more or less verifies that the information concerning the Soldier's family is correct. There is not even a regulatory requirement for a Red Cross notification. If a Commander trusts the Soldier, then off they go. As a Commander, I had several instances where I either trusted the troop or they provided other documentation, that I let them go home on emergency leave. Third: the Red cross does not "send" or "bring" anyone home. That is up to the military, who either works out some sort of military flight home, or the troop gets out his credit card. In the case of deployments, most Army units usually let a troop go home on emergency leave and count it as if he was going home on his regular mid-tour leave. The unit just sucks up the change in mid-tour leave scheduling. If a troop has already gone home, then it requires a little more finagling. @ Cordeliabraniac: you are, of course, absolutely correct about the loans. I was trying to ensure that the Questioner did not think that the RED Cross was actually involved in the movement of a military member process, as her question implied. Over the years, I've had several troops and family think that just because a Rec Cross message went out, then the troops HAD to go home and that the Red Cross would pay for it automatically.

well my dad got sent home when i was admitted to hospital with renal disease

Talk to her doctor to see if he thinks its time to call in the family. If he says yes, call the Red Cross and let them do their thing. You might want to send your husband an email or call him first so its not a total shock. Note to Major Kev: Red Cross does interest free loans in these type of situations - not bringing the member home but def helping out.

It would have to be you rather than his mother dying to come home ASAP.