Army Sick Call Slip: Fill & Download for Free

You will get the job you signed up for, and you will work that job once your training is complete.Remember the janitor where you used to work? That’s also your job. You will sweep and mop, polish things, and take out the trash.Remember the groundkeepers? Also your job, lawnmower man.Remember calling your supervisor and saying, “I won’t be in today, I feel like crap.”? You will go to the orderly room (your company’s office) and fill out a sick call slip and then a Medic or Corpsman will decide whether you rate calling in sick, or whether you get some Motrin and throat lozenges and go back to work. The only exception to this is if you are so ill/injured that you go directly to the emergency room.The normal workday is 0800–1600. But, PT formation is at 0600. After working out with 100 of your good buddies, you will get a little time for a shower and breakfast before work starts. PT, and what you do for PT, is not optional.How you do your job may seem a bit unusual at times. There is a saying, “There are three ways to do something. There’s the right way, the wrong way, and the Army way.” The Army way may not be right or wrong, just different from what you’re used to.You get thirty days of paid leave every year. Every CO I’ve had acted as if it comes out of his pay if I wanted to take two weeks at a time.You will eventually hear the term, “The needs of the Army” (Navy, Marines, Air Force) This means that you may be deployed to some location you don’t like, doing a job different from the one you enlisted for because that's what the military needs you to do. I know artillerymen that became prison guards, truckers who ran a site for processing vehicles to return to the US, even Air Force Reserve drivers who got voluntold to drive Army convoys in Iraq. It sucks, a lot of people hate it, and you signed a piece of paper agreeing that they could do it to you. Embrace the suck. You might actually learn something and enjoy yourself. (And read your damn contract, so you know all the possibilities contained in it. It will save your NCOs a lot of time listening to you complain about it)

The US military has a good medical system.Every unit has a designated person you report to when you need to go on sick call. (I am going to use Army terms here but the other services work pretty much the same way.) It could be the Charge of Quarters, the company clerk, the first sergeant, one of the platoon sergeants…on your first day in the unit, they tell you who you get sick slips from.The designated person fills out DD Form 689 on you. This is what it looks like:http://glwach.amedd.army.mil/victoryclinic/documents/IndividualSickSlip_dd689.pdfYou then report to your primary medical facility. If you’re in a combat arms unit, it’ll have its own battalion aid station and you’ll go there. If you’re in a support unit, they have Troop Medical Clinics, or “TMCs,” that serve several units. You go there and are treated in the order of your arrival. At the end of your visit you can receive one of five “dispositions”: duty (you go back to work because you’re not that sick), quarters if you’re not on a ship or sick bay if you are (too sick to work, not sick enough to go to the hospital), the hospital on your base (you’re really sick), or “other” which can be a lot of different things - convalescent leave, getting sent to a centralized hospital because you have something your base’s hospital can’t treat, or - if you are bad enough off - you can be referred to the Medical Evaluation Board, who will assess your condition and make recommendations to the Physical Evaluation Board as to whether to reassign you to a different unit and leave you in the same job, retrain you into a different job or medically retire you.

No, not in the slightest. If you're sick you need proof you're sick, that means you're going to have to drag yourself out of bed, go to sick call, and wait to be seen at the Troop Medical Clinic (TMC) or you go to the ER if it's REALLY bad. either way you have to let your first line supervisor know. In order for you to be excused from work for medical reasons, you're going to need to present your sick call slip to your first line supervisor.That said in the 6 years I was in the army I got quarters (where they send you home and you're on bed rest) a total of 2 times. Both times I had to be vomiting and incontinent (Couldn't stop myself from pooping). In both cases I couldn't hold down water and was one miserable camper.