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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 Ashley on June 16, 2010 at 9:34pm: Gman, He is going to be phase 3 soon. He is working on changing his status and getting me on all his information. He was told that we could get a place together on base and if not then we could use BAH to get an apartment. Is that right? I know we are going to have to pay for me to move this time, but I am just hoping that they'll help us find a place to live.

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on June 16, 2010 at 4:51pm: Ashley, is he classed up already? If so tell him to get his brown bagger chit so he can live with you, that is if you haven't already started that.
Since he is already here you are not on his orders to get military money to move so you just need to find a place to stay and move in. After that he will need to turn in his brown bagger chit so he can live with you off base, if he is phase 2 or 3. I don't know if phase 2 can live off base.
He will also need to update his marital status to show he is married.

Comment by Ashley on June 16, 2010 at 3:16pm: My sailor and I just got married on Saturday and now we have to begin the paper work and try to figure out what ot do about me moving down there. If anyone has any tips on what's next and what I need to do that would be great. I already have a job down there so housing is the next thing I'm thinking about. Any help would be great!

Comment by jonwife on June 16, 2010 at 2:33pm: Unfortunately with the beach a total fail these days, there's not much else to do. I have a 3-year old and we have been hard pressed to find much to do besides going to the pool at our apartment building :( sorry. Let me know if anybody knows of anything. I'm curious as well :)

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on June 16, 2010 at 2:16pm: emilylane, congrats.
Fun stuff, hmm, I don't do much of anything so hopefully others will chime in.

Comment by lovemysailor (ship 14 div 190) on June 14, 2010 at 6:37pm: navywife10- thats great i forgot i believe u may have told me ur hubby was in avaiton structul mechanices?? i may be wrong. do you know where u guys are going yet????

Comment by jonwife on June 14, 2010 at 8:05am: Congrats Navywife10!! That's so exciting. Looking forward to getting there ourselves (not until Oct 1). Has your husband got his next set of orders yet? that's the part that's killing me. I want to know so bad where we're going next. Good luck to your hubby and I hope you guys get to go somewhere good next :)

Comment by navywife10 on June 14, 2010 at 7:29am: Hubby graduates from A school tomorrow!! I'm so excited I can hardly wait :)

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on June 10, 2010 at 1:53am: I put a new link up at the top of the group page. The first one is a FAQ about money and what is available for PCS moves.
The second link is to the DoD Per Diem main page.

Comment by jonwife on June 8, 2010 at 2:13pm: I agree with Barbara! To us it would be more of a distraction if you weren't here. He'd be worried and not know what was going on with you all the time as opposed to being able to coming home to his family. My husband is a little older and it helped his morale big time just to get away from the base every night for a bit. I agree, ask for the paperwork, submit it and all they can say is tell you no (which is unlikely). Yes he'll get hassle but if he can just take it and put it past him, it will be better for you guys and that new little one.