If you’re planning to enlist, get hired first. Lock in a job. Then file for Leave of Absence. That’s how you keep your benefits active while you serve. Home Depot honors military LOA in 2025. You stay on the payroll. You notify them when your contract extends. They keep your file open. You keep stacking time.
While deployed, you still earn a cut of store bonuses. You still accumulate annual raises. You don’t lose seniority. You don’t lose your spot. You just pause the clock. When you return, you pick up where you left off with everything you earned while gone.
One associate worked six months before enlisting. Twenty years later, he came back. He was the second highest paid hourly worker in the building. Five weeks of vacation waiting. He used it. Then waited for his anniversary. Vacation reset. He quit. Got paid out again. That’s not luck. That’s knowing the system.
Home Depot’s military support goes beyond LOA. As of May 2025, eligible service members can shop tax free on over two million products through ShopMyExchange and myNavyExchange. That includes appliances, tools, garden gear, and more. The company pledged seven hundred fifty million dollars toward veteran causes by 2030. That’s already in motion.
If you’re enlisting, don’t vanish. Get hired. File LOA. Keep your benefits. Stack your time. Come back with leverage.
Sources:
https://ir.homedepot.com/news-releases/2025/05-01-2025-130407914