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Spouses of Sailors going to A-school in P-cola

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This is a group mainly for spouses of sailors that are going to school in Pensacola. This will be a place where spouses can ask and answer questions that effect spouses of sailors while they are stationed at Pensacola.

Members: 132
Latest Activity: Jan 19, 2019

Various links to military stuff.

FAQ page on the Per Diem, Travel, and Transportation Allowance Commitee website
Here is a link that you will need to check out. It is a FAQ about PCS moves and what $$'s are available.

Per Diem, Travel, and Transportation Allowance Commitee main page

My Base Guide

Space A Travel Eligibility
Ok, this is a very important link and I hope it stays valid if I forget to update it. Just so everybody knows, legal dependents are now allowed to travel Space A while their military sponsor is on deployment orders. If you don't know what this is it is very simple. You can fly at little cost almost anywhere in the world on a government aircraft. You sign up on a list and wait for your number to be called. So, if your sailor is deployed to say, Japan, you can jump on a Space A flight to Japan for say 30 dollars. I don't know the exact amount, but it is cheap. Take a look at this, Google Space A travel, you will get all the answers you need. If you have more questions, ask.

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Comment by Brooklyn on July 10, 2010 at 8:02pm: thanks :)

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on July 10, 2010 at 7:21pm: Blyn,
Check out this link, it has the info you need.
Arriving in P-cola

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on July 10, 2010 at 7:20pm: Blue Angels today was awesome!!

Comment by Brooklyn on July 10, 2010 at 6:17pm: Ladies, my hubby will leave for basic on sept 8th and then to P'scola for Aircrew training...my question is, my son and I are moving there after I graduate college in december and we were wondering the phase schedule? how long to each phase? thanks

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on July 7, 2010 at 11:27pm: thanks for the info.

did you live in P-cola? If so, did you guys get reimbursed from P-cola or from your home state for your move? I am assuming you guys did a dity move??

Can I go to the PSD or does my wife have to (she is the sailor)??

Good luck on your first deployment!!

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on July 3, 2010 at 12:07am: Navy Gurl,
What office in P-cola is supposed to do the ppwrk and DITY move advancement? Can you tell us any more details of where ppwrk should be done down here. That is a great help to us that are still stuck here.
Good luck on your new assignment and good luck you your sailor!

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on June 30, 2010 at 5:28pm: I agree with jonwife.

Also, there is a thing called DITY (spelling may be wrong) move but the concept is that you move your stuff on your own accord when you get your PCS orders. The military reimburses you for your move. They pay for whatever is shorter. So, if you get orders for SD and you are in Pensacola rather than NC than they will reimburse you for it. If you were in say, NY or somewhere further you would only get reimbursement for the shorter distance. This is my understanding of the move reimbursement system. Like jonwife said, if you really want clarification call the transportation office, or the Fleet and Family Support office. It is across from the NEX gas station on NAS Pensacola.

My advice is to not discuss moving and spouses and dependents with these people anymore. All is does is cause confusion and stress in your lives. I do however have a concern that you are being told not to correct your personnel file. I would have to say that it is up to each individual sailor to be sure that all personal information is correct and accurate. Imagine this, a family member contacts the Red Cross about a family emergency and the Navy doesn't know how to contact you because your information is not correct. There could be negative repercussions because of this. He needs to and I stress needs to correct his personnel file, it is important and necessary.

When you get orders you will know where you are going, what you can move, and who pays for it. Before that time nobody can tell you for sure who is paying for what and from where.

Comment by jonwife on June 30, 2010 at 2:46pm: lovemysailor - there should be no trouble in changing your home of record. He may not be able to change his but there should be no reason he can't change yours (I believe he needs to change the Page 2). Even though the Navy likes to think so sometimes, they actually don't control where you go (only your husband). We all decided to move down here on our own accord and even though they don't like it very much, there's nothing much they can do about it. what I would do is call the transportation office on base and find out for sure what they will move and where from. They should be able to answer any questions that you would have. And keep your chin up! As I keep having to remind my hubby, this phase is only temporary and we'll be going somwhere better (hopefully) soon. Oh and stop listening to the rumors, we've learned that most of the rumor spreaders are full of it :) LOL!!!

Comment by lovemysailor (ship 14 div 190) on June 30, 2010 at 2:18pm: okay i need more help once agian! so hubby still has not changed my home of record like where i am living, i have only been here for a month and like 2 days! but he was talking to a higer up guy at his barricks and he freaking told him not to change the address and that we would have to move our stuff from fl back to hickory nc then onto hopefull san diego which is totally out of the way and we would have to pay for move from here to nc out of pocket and they would pay for form nc to sd! someone is telling him him he will get in trouble if he changes our address to here, im so tired of hearing bs from people! it will cost me 1000 1500 to move stuff back to nc can anyone give me some insight on what they might know or have done!! i know gman that ur address changed when u got brown bag and all but ya were not getting brown bag what should we do????

Comment by bulldogmamma on June 29, 2010 at 9:44pm: Hello there! I jsut wanted to check in. Hubby is at Corry now and they having them PT at 410 am ahhhh! Other than that Pensacola is pretty tough now that the oil has hit the beaches. Seems like thats all we did out here. The heat is crazy but I am glad to know that he will grad by end of Aug to take the 1st class exam! Hoping to get orders to VA soon. :) Good luck everyone.