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Originally Posted by cmonstanley
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If he is in the Forces he gets 28 days leave, plus bank holidays every year. In addition there is embarkation leave and disembarkation leave (DinG can verify whether this is still the norm).
Should he spend all of his leave at his parents address then "his room" will be vacant for something like 40 days per year - excluding any additional leave. Very few young men that I knew in the Services ever spent the whole of their leave at their home of record.
Therefore, if the family wish to have a vacant room (assuming it is vacant i.e. empty of all items except those that belong to the serviceman, as it is council/public housing, there is no reason why they should not pay for additional storage space - a lock up garage/storage container will cost about £10 per week.
Real life appears to have passed you by, perhaps you were on the wrong side of the road?