Posted on Mar 25, 2019
What’s the number for fort hood branch for requesting orders?
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So I’m due to attend AIT in May and I graduate in September and my wife and I just found out she’s pregnant and due date is in October I was trying to find out if I can call a request that my report date for my next duty station after AIT be after that due date is that possible or what I do not know where I’ll be going after I complete AIT yet I am a reclassing soldier and I’ve been here at hood for 3 years
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Since your wife’s due date is in November and you graduate in September, wouldn’t it be better to leave for your next duty station after your graduation? I asked because if you’re in AIT, they are not going to allow you to be a hold over at a location your dependents are not authorized at.
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SFC (Join to see)
You can still start your leave 10 working days after your return. That’ll give you time to out-process Ft Hood. Have your unit do a memo for you for CIF, for you to turn in your CIF without orders/clearing papers, this way you can turn your CIF in before you leave for school. Everything else you can clear quickly so you can leave Hood heading to your new duty station in time for your spouse to have the baby. CPL (Join to see)
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The request is processed through your career counselor. If you call reassignment they'll just send you on a wild goose chase and eventually refer you to retention.
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What’s my best option then because in September my wife can’t travel till after the baby is born and if my report date is say November we’ll kind be screwed
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SFC (Join to see)
CPL (Join to see) as I said, the request is processed through your career counselor.
Go see your career counselor and send up the request
Go see your career counselor and send up the request
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MAJ Byron Oyler
CPL (Join to see) - Is your wife's pregnancy high risk? Depending on factors during the pregnancy, she may very well be able to travel. My wife flew across the Pacific over seven months. SFC Boyd always has excellent Army answers and I have worked a lot of women's health. Maybe she will need to deliver where she is living around September and you do your thing someplace else. You are not going to be screwed, you just may not have ideal experiences. Marriage and children in the Army is not always easy until you get close to retirement. I was a senior cpt when I got married and taught my wife the Army pays for everything we have. Get this all in your head, follow SFC Boyd's advice and if things work in your favor, wonderful, if not you have already began preparing for not so ideal conditions.
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Purely as a thought I try to offer on here a good deal, honestly, go and ask the chaplains or their staff where you are, and see if they might possibly be able to intercede at all...chaplains tend to do a good deal of social-work type stuff...then, too, if there's a clinical facility where you are with social workers, go and see them, trust me, while I'd been in doctoral allied-health residency before my total perm disability, I spent a good deal of time involved with social workers for patients, occasionally chaplains also, though we shut my license off sevl yrs ago, I assure you, what you've got is pretty much grist for their mill, honest...if you'd care to chat at all, or have any luck, I'd be most eager to hear your thoughts...social workers and chaplains are really good at dealing with stuff like this, you might also ask about their helping you with Red Cross stuff too, should that be needed, if you'd be away for the delivery at all, as well...just food for thought as well, obviously, OK? Hope all that is of at least some possible use, of course....
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