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[Thinton88]

My husband finally got his orders after being in TMD for a week after C school.  I'm pretty much have everything packed.  I'm thinking the logical thing is for me to do is to go to his duty station when he gets there and start looking at potential places to live.  However is telling me that he was told in boot camp that when they go to a new location that they will be on probation for a couple weeks and has to live in the barracks. In other words, he wants me to stay in NY until he's out of "probation".  I don't think it makes sense.  I don't know what he's doing to prepare for us to arrive, and I honestly don't think he knows himself.

Anyway, my questions are:

what happens when the sailor checks into a new station?

is this whole probation thing true?

when are spouses allowed to move to the new location?

is there anything I can do to help him to get the necessary info he needs?

Thanks in advance. 

[Anti M]

I am prior Navy and have never heard of the "probation" thing for married sailors except for training commands and schools.  In fact, many commands authorize ten days of house hunting leave (which does not count against his earned leave) in order to look for housing with the spouse.  What he needs to do is contact someone at his new command, see if they will give him a sponsor to help guide him.  Ask his new command what their policy is. The contact numbers are on his orders, or if you know the command he will be reporting to, you can google it.  And YOU, as the spouse can talk to the command ombudsman if they have one.  Also found on google.  Good luck, and keep asking if you have more questions.

New sailors hear a lot of BS in basic and school.  Always ask their new chain of command.  

[Jenn_NicksWifey]

The probation thing makes no sense.  That would screw up BAH.  They aren't going to pay him BAH and have him live in the barracks.  So far, in my experience, I have never met a married sailor who had to live in the barracks, except discipline procedures..  He should contact the quarterdeck and ask tell them he got orders to there and see if he can get in touch with someone who is his sponsor.  The number for the quarterdeck should be on his orders, if he can't find it, he can google it.  You can call the ombudsman for the command.  Contact Your Ombudsman

He should register on Move.mil so you and/or he can set up your move.  I wrote a blog about our first move, it's here;  My First Navy PCS.  Now that was in Oct 2012, so some things may have changed, but it should help you with some of the terminology, which departments do what, and how to navigate move.mil.  

[RachalW]

From our experience, my husband was never on probation for anything. When he finished A school he came home for a couple of weeks and in that time the navy came packed everything for us and moved it to our next place (C school which was 10 months long) from Indiana to Virginia. When they arrived with our things they unpacked most boxes and went on their way.

So you should be able to go to his duty station when he does as long as he goes to the housing office and gets on a wait list for housing or if theres one available there will be a "hotsheet" where you can move right away.