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My husband is an ET stationed in Great Lakes for ATT & A school. He got his Live Ashore Packet on Monday and he is turning in the CHIT tomorrow. Does anyone with experience on this have any advice as to how long it will take for everything to get approved? Also, I need some moving advice. We have most of our furniture in storage right now. We are going to get the full government move. Whenever it gets closer i will move the rest of my furniture..(bed,comp...etc) into the storage with the rest of the furniture so that it can be moved from one location. What i need to know is.. will they wrap our stuff and pack it for us or do i need to do that myself? I have some Pictures that need to be wrapped in bubble wrap but my husband thinks that they will take care of these type of things for us.. any advice? Since i will be driving my vehicle to Great Lakes, IL from Georgia they will reimburse us for Gas money.. am i correct?Thanks for any bit of advice you guys have to offer. I am very new to all of this and i need all of the help and support that i can get!

 

 

Another question for you ladies :) ---


 

For those of you living in Great Lakes, Do you live on base or off? My husband and i will have to live off base because on base housing does not allow Siberian Huskies. If only they knew our baby, shes the sweetest dog in the world! I guess it is because of her size though! I have been looking for apartments and our options are very limited because of the doggie.. but i am looking at
Grand Oaks Apartments now. It looks nice, but since i am 16 hours away right now i am not able to get a good look. I am planning a trip within the next week or so to come look at apartments but it would help to narrow it down! Has anyone heard of this complex. Do any of you live there? What about Reserve at Eagle Ridge? Any help you guys can offer would be so appreciated! I really would like to be in a safe area. Grand Oaks is in Gurnee and is 5 miles away from the Gurnee Mall. I like the idea of that because i will be able to get a job close to home. Thanks for the help!

 

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I'm going to suggest you either move all your stuff back to Ohio when he gets his orders, or move all of your stuff up to IL when he gets his order, but you will want whatever place you have them move you to be your home of origin. When you are done, DONE with the Navy (not just done with that duty station) they will pay for you to move back to your home of origin from wherever you are stationed at the time.

 

Also, it's really up to you on what you want to do. If you take your dad's truck and trailer, you will have to stop at weighing stations all along the way, get the truck weighed and keep every receipt you use (hotel, gas, weighing, etc) and then turn that all back into the Navy and they'll decide how much money they can give you to reimburse you. But if you let them move you, they will pack you and give you somewhere around 3,000 to move. They gave us 3,200 the first time we moved.  It just depends on where you live and where your first duty station is. If it's in the states and you're moving from Ohio to say, San Diego, or Washington State, I'm gonna guess it will be somewhere around 3,000 but a little more than that. But if you're moving over seas (which over seas orders DO happen!!!!) Then they will pay for the whole move, including flights, the container and the car, etc. I am not sure how all that works because I wasn't stationed over seas, but my whole family is in the military and most of them have had their time overseas at one point or other. :) 

 

Also, for apartments; I don't know if you'd be interested in staying in an extended stay hotel, but I stayed in "Candlewood Suites" Libertyville, IL. It was about 18 minutes from base (trust me, I timed it, because I was expecting a baby and needed to know how long it would take to get there and back to the hospital! They let my husband come to the birth and gave him paternity leave, even though he was in school!!!) The rent was covered by the BAH. If you want to do that, talk the manager, Ellen. She is VERY nice and she most likely could help you find a deal. Tell her Courtney Birkbeck sent you!!! She'll remember me, especially if you tell her I was the one who had the baby while staying at her hotel! It was VERY nice, had a kitchen with a full sized fridge, stove (no oven tho), toaster, dishes, nice big bathroom, the most comfortable bed on earth, etc.  That way you wouldn't have to move anything and then the Navy could just move you from your home of origin. It will keep the paper work from getting really confused.

 

Keep asking questions. I won't promise I'll know the answers, but I've been through a LOT. LOL

Thanks for the suggestion but we are planning to live there for around a year and a half so i would like to get an apartment. we just married in February, he left for boot camp in April. We received a lot of great gifts and furniture that we haven't got to use yet! My husband will be able to live off base with me as well so i want it to feel like home as much as we can. :) i am hoping to find some apartment options. i am thinking about making a trip in 2 weeks i just would like to cut the places that aren't worth my time out of the picture, although i haven't been having much luck with places allowing my dog. I am just trying to find a place to stay that is safe! Thats my main concern.

 

Does anyone know the number to family fleet services center in GL?

https://www.smartwebmove.navsup.navy.mil/swm/ will have the FACTS regarding moving.  Recommend you go there to get them as some people state only what they think is truth as it is what happened to them, but ever case is different.
Hey, my hubs is an FC and I moved out here last December. We live in Lake Buff at Forest Pointe and really like it, it's a little bit more expensive but there's a lot of Navy couples here, there's no security deposit or pet deposit for military, it's really close to the base (only takes like 8 minutes to get there), and it's a MUCH better/safer area than north of the base (Waukegan, etc). I know a bunch of girls that live up there and hate it. I did the move out here blind too and I'm SO glad I went with this area, I would not have felt safe living in Waukegan, I don't even drive up there if I can help it. They take dogs in our complex but you'd have to check about your breed, I don't know their limitations. There's also a complex next to us called Deer Park that's supposed to be similar to ours, we have a friend moving in there soon. There's also a place called The Woodlands that's across the street from base housing, so it's even a little closer to base but still south so it's still in a safe area. I know they're less expensive too but I haven't actually been in them so don't know what they're like inside or what their pet policy is, but may be worth a look?

Make sure your husband fills out the paper work for the dislocation allowance, that's the $3000 everyone is talking about but it's separate from the paperwork for having your stuff moved out here and they don't always tell the guys about it, depends on their ship and the yeomen and stuff.

Oh, and if you have the government move your stuff someone does have to be there, though you can name someone else to be there, if you have family where your stuff is. They do it in up to three steps. One visit to survey your stuff and see how much there is, then one to pack it up, then another to actually load it into the truck.

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