I haven’t really found a direct yes or no answer to this question so if anyone has found it or knows personally please let me know!
As an active duty military member in a formal course of instruction, your leave periods are set by the academic calendar:
Thanksgiving
Winter break/Christmas
Spring Break
Usually a 3-week personal leave block scheduled among mandatory and elective training blocks over the summer.
Sometimes a few days of inter-sessional leave in between end of semester exams and required events to prepare for summer training, Commissioning Week and other major evolutions.
Emergency leave: Death or critical illness of an immediate family member (parent or sibling). USNA understands the closeness of some grandparents or other non-immediate family members, and may choose to grant leave.
Leave for any personal reason. Just like the Fleet and Corps, there is a process. Policy, precedent, the midshipman’s academic health and impact of missed classes and other mandatory evolutions, and the chain of command’s evaluation of the request, all come into play. The bottom line - is the request exceptional enough to merit approval.
Military people miss family weddings, birthdays, graduations, reunions, births of children, other special events, frequently, especially if assigned to operational duty or deployed. Military people in formal training courses are usually not allowed to go on leave except at scheduled times. If the needs of the Navy outweigh the personal wants of the military member, that is part of the life.
That said, each special leave request is handled on its merits.
And, leave is different than liberty. Town liberty is the ability to go off-Yard within a certain radius. Weekend liberty with overnights is something that can be earned, either by increased privileges with each year of seniority as a midshipman or through meeting certain criteria.
Here is a link to USNA calendar:
Academic Term Calendars page for Academics at USNA.edu. Updated Wed Apr 03 14:22:10 EDT 2024.
www.usna.edu