User blog comment:The Milkman/Citadel Review: Entertaining and Inconsequential/@comment-1786741-20130307131635/@comment-1440333-20130307195743

I suppose every soldier in a harsh combat zone needs to be rotated out and rest up every so often, even Commander Shepard. As Joker says in game Shepard's stress levels are at an all-time high, so the shore leave being mandatory in this DLC is very fitting with real world military practice.