If your commander signs off, you'll have been granted leave, and your form is then forwarded to S1, and you can sign out on leave at battalion staff duty the day your leave begins. Usually the decision is made at the platoon level whether you get to go on leave.
Defect definition, a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection: a defect in an argument; a defect in a machine. See more.
The defect of a polygon is the difference between its angle sum and the angle sum for a Euclidean polygon with the same number of sides. This statement works in spherical and hyperbolic geometry, for polygons with any number of sides.