Okay I'm trying trying to see if I am understanding this right. so lets say I request and take leave for like December and January, then in February I must submit $200 to keep my status, right? Just making sure cause I'm moving the first part of December and my hubby leaves for Korea in January so I was wanting to take leave for December and maybe part of January, which I may not do since It says in the RFS "in a 12 month period" so I have to take leave again Next January(2008) since we will be transfering to a different base. Got to love the Military. LOL. But I just want to make sure I was understanding it right. I don't want to loose my sales, I've worked to hard for them. Now my second question is: when it comes to submitting the request I have to submit it the month before or can I request it now and it take affect the first part of December? Thank you all for your help. I sure do appreciate it.