Although men serving in the Atlantic Fleet get 42 days' leave a year, this is to compensate them for the absence of weekend leave and other advantages which service at a home port carries with it. The grant of 10 days' drafting leave to men before proceeding abroad in effect raises the scale of foreign service leave to approximately 19 days a year, and as drafting is so arranged that all men get about the same amount of foreign, Atlantic Fleet and home harbour service, no reason is seen for altering existing arrangements.