The Advance Pay Option: Should You Take the Money and Run? When making a PCS, the military allows service members to request an advance of up to three months of basic pay to cover...
Weigh Your HHG Options Before Your PCS As soon as you obtain orders promptly contact your servicing Transportation Office to schedule a counseling appointment. Your...
Post-PCS Survey Helps Keep Bad Movers Out The movers are gone and you've asked for reimbursement for your broken stuff. That means you're done, right? Not necessarily.
Figuring Your PCS/OCONUS Travel Expenses For a PCS move, you may be reimbursed for travel and transportation expenses incurred during the allowable travel days en...
4 Steps to PCS Recovery You’ve arrived to your new location and you’re ready to unpack, but now you’re encountering a new slew of problems.
It's Permanent Change of Station Time of Year With a PCS, a positive attitude and an ability to roll with the punches is important -- as well as these important tips.
Organizing for PCS: Taking Inventory of Household Items Whether it's your first PCS or your eighth, preparing an inventory system leading up to your move can help make the entire...
Get Your Physical and Immunizations Before the OCONUS Move If you are assigned to a position with specific physical and or medical standards you must pass a physical examination.
Transporting Large or Unusual Pets Know about transporting large pets such as horses and ponies and unusual pets including monkeys, boa constrictors and other...
New PCS Orders, New Contacts The PCS orders just arrived and it's time to get your military family packed and ready to go, which is never easy. However...
Trump Reportedly Weighs Immediate Discharge of All Transgender Troops. Here's What That Would Mean. The proposed plan, as first reported by the Times of London, would entail signing an order within days of Trump taking office...
The Best Amazon Black Friday Week 2024 Deals for Service Members, Veterans and Their Families America’s favorite shopping holiday isn’t just a single day, or even a weekend, anymore. Here’s how U.S. service members...
For Soldiers at Fort Carson, Food Is Scarce As Americans gather for Thanksgiving feasts, soldiers at Fort Carson, Colorado, are contending with a far less festive...
Musk, Ramaswamy Proposal to Slash Spending Could Include VA Medical Services Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy confirmed that they plan to target "unauthorized" federal spending, a category that includes...
Former Navy Officer ‘Driven by Greed’ Steals over $850,000 in Military Gear, Feds Say Richard Allen, 53, pleaded guilty Aug. 29 to conspiracy and six counts of money laundering. Now he'll serve 18 months in...