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Hi Ladies..
I'm new on here and I'm a Navy Girlfriend!
I have a question that I hope someone can answer...
My Sailor has asked to go on leave pretty soon and if it is approved we will get married once he's here.. We talked last night and he told me that if we get married I won't be able to live overseas because he's not a Petty Officer. So, we will be married but I will be in the States and receiving BAH. So, I told him that I could still go and visit but he said I won't be able to because it's like i'd be receiving BAH while living in the States but living overseas (Even though I won't be living overseas, i'll just be visiting). He says if they were to find out that I was in Japan while receiving BAH while I lived in the states he could get in trouble..
Does anyone know if this is true or how it works or someone explain it to me better?
I mean it makes some sense but then again it doesn't because I will be living in the States but visiting him overseas. So, I don't know what the harm would be?
HELP!
Thanks Ladies!
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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E-3 and below cannot take dependents overseas. So he is correctin that.
If married, you would receive BAH for where you live in the US, yes. If you go to visit him, you can keep the BAH as long as it is paying the rent/lease on the place in the US. I assume you would not just give up your apartment or house. Hotel rooms are screamingly expensive overseas, and unless he has a friend with a couch, more than a couple weeks would break you financially. You can visit Japan for up to 90 days on a tourist visa. You cannot stay in the Navy Lodge that long, they have limits as they are not a residence facility. There is no place I know of that does weekly rentals like in the US.
The BAH is tied to a physical address, you don't have to be there if you are on vacation, but you had better be paying the money into it. If you list an address, then keep the money, that is fraud. HE would get into a world of hurt, and could be discharged, have to pay it all back, perhaps even time in the brig.
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Permalink Reply by Angie on
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FYI..the BAH goes to the Sailor. It is up to the Sailor to give it to the spouse. NO pay just goes to the spouse.
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True, but the sailor who does not turn it over to the spouse can get into trouble, we had guys who tried to do that on Diego Garcia. It wasn't pretty in the long run. They figured their spouses couldn't get to them that far away. They were oh so wrong. I don't know if you've had to deal with that situation or not. Turns out a sailor can be ordered to turn it over, plus a percentage of their base pay.
We even had a bigamist, wife and kids in the US, wife in the PI who he'd married in church and never told her he was already married. Never told the Navy either. She went to Navy Relief for loans to live on, and that's how his scam to sleep with a nice girl and abandon her was uncovered. He was in trouble for failing to pay his credit card bills. I'm not sure where he was sent, but he disappeared out of our workcenter overnight, to Subic's brig.
Just making sure the spouses know they are not powerless if their service member is a ... bad guy.
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