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Confusing issues involving our Sailors
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Permalink Reply by Mary (Chris' mom) on
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Here is my question on travel (I'm sure I'll have more as time goes on). Barbara says B.'s flight home for leave will be paid for. Is that because there are so many flights available in and out of his command? I have read that they fly free on military flights, if there is available space. The way the recruiter put it, made it sound as though they should expect to pay for their own way unless they wanted to spend half their leave time sitting around waiting for flights back and forth. Can someone help to clear this up a little? Thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Rene on
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OKay..talk about confusion....Jared got orders awhile back, to report to his NOSC, a week before school was over, right? So..I asked him yesterday if he had gotten his orders changed. He said not paper orders yet. If he graduates, and has no paper orders, they will not release him from there, right? So..could he be put on hold waiting on corrected orders? Also..Mary, sorry I have no answers about the travel stuff.....
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That's ok Rene, I'm just throwing out some qustions of general concern here that maybe one of the more "experienced" moms can help us with.
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Rene, my daughter had verbal, no paper when she finished school in MS. She went into a holding group until her paper orders came, almost a month. It sucks. But, they did a lot of community work, which looks good in their records. As far as I know, he will have to stay there, since he is still under the last official orders. Once his hard copies come in, he should be able to leave fairly quickly.
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Permalink Reply by Anna on
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Mary,
I can only tell you what I know from when both of my kids have traveled - both on orders and on their own:
If they are traveling, on orders, from school or one duty station to another, then the military pays their travel expenses. Now if they want to redirect their flights to say go home before reporting to the next duty station, they turn in their tickets the Navy gives them and has their flight changed so that they fly home first and then continue on to their next duty station. They only pay the difference between the original ticket and the new ticket. When Catherine came home from Meridian before going on to Washington, she paid an additional $30.00 for the difference. When Christopher went from GL to CO before going to VA, he had to pay quite a bit more because he had to pay for the plane ticket to CO himself, and the Navy paid him the amount of travel from GL to VA because he was driving his own vehicle and not flying.
If a sailor just wants to go home on leave without being on orders, they pay for those flights on their own.
Hope this clears up a little info for you. With ChrisM going to DC from VA, he may want to drive his own vehicle there and the Navy will pay the cost per mile expense (I don't remember what that amount is but it is set by the government). -
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Oh Anna,
Don't tell HIM that. He already wants to drive there and I'm trying to discourage it! He will of course drive from school back home for leave, but then I would rather he fly out of Charlotte or Greensboro to DC and leave the car here. He thinks he is going to drive home and then drive to DC so he can have his car day 1. :( He was just saying that his buddy has not paid him the $125 that he owes for the night they their cars got towed. Bil**** didn't have enough money to get his car out so Chris paid to get both cars from the garage. Now the other sailor has not paid Chris back and that was what, 6 or more weeks ago!
Thanks for the info though. I thought it was sort of that way but not sure after Barbara had posted that B was getting to come home in August at the Navy's expense. Chris will tell me not to worry that he's got it all figured out and then at the last minute be scrambling for a flight. Just like the boy I've come to know and Love! -
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I will try to answer here and hope it goes through since been having trouble on the site.. There are frequent flights that go from Bahrain to Westover AFB. He can fly on that flight for no charge... It is about 40 mins. from us.
Someone he knows just took th emilitary charter to Norfolk because he lives in Deleware and he didn't pay. Now he was dropping something off at Dam Neck. So does that then make the free flight.
It sounds like when private business owner travels to Europe and he does business one day somehow or another they can justify writing off the whole trip..
I will see if B can give me any more info if someone takes a commercial flight.. That i would assume they wouldn't get reimbursed for.. -
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Barbara,
The flights to Westover AFB are military flights right? I think any sailor can get a free military flight if there is room (and if it is going to a place they want to get to!!). Especially like from Bahrain a sailor can hitch a ride on a military flight. Or if they are traveling on military business like his friend.
There are ways out there that a sailor can get a free flight but if they want to fly home on a commercial flight you have to pay for it even if it's for an emergency. My nephew had to come home right away from Bahrain because of my mom and part of his flight was free but to actually get to Cleveland he had to go commercial. -
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Ok. It's beginning to make some sense. (I think?) I had just heard and read so many conflicting things that I was not sure if Chris was going to have to pay to get to DC or not. So for the Navy to pay for it, Chris could drive home for his leave and I could take him back to Dam Neck/Norfolk to catch his flight to DC? I really don't want him to drive to DC but he wants to take his car. I'm thinking I should just tell him that he will have to get his own insurance if he's taking his car. When he finds out that he can't afford it maybe he will leave the car here. Thank you both for the help!
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It's really hard sometimes, to get stright anwser from our kid as what theye are up to or where they are going while in I. , I should now I used to be one and 2 kids have followed Mom's military path, why you may ask, when kids were younger they always use to ask what are you doing and where are you going Mom (in the Navy), of course I couldn't tell them the truth, so I used to tell the a spy story, so they would stop and keep them fascinated. (maybe that could be 1 reason why they got into Navy for) How I deal with it myself now is to face the facts that they will be alright, as they have recived an excellent education and training From the Navy and Mom. They worry about Me as much as I worry about them! Secondly, they do keep in touch with me regulary at least a few times a week anywhere between 1-5times) so I know they are OK, Alot of tomes we can't go into specifics, buts that's OK too as I wouldn't want to know specifics of their Love life neither.I am glad that this group exists!! BEing with moms, who's children are doing a job as mine :) Thank you! for all of you!
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