How do I get my house stuff to my husband new station?

SPC Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 18:43:04 -0400

I heard they can reinburse you but, some say they never do. Any advice or cheap moving companies? I don't have much.

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made Mar 26 at 2019 7:22 PM

Capt Daniel Goodman — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 19:22:08 -0400

I offer this purely as a thought...I have no idea, certainly, where you could find someone reputable by you...however, as a suggestion, I'd most definitely ask the chaplains or their staffs wherever you might be for suggestions, if only to try to get their help to find someone reputable, and/or relatively cheap...then, too, there's the whole aspect of breakage insurance, plus, whether they'd be rated by Better Business Bureau (BBB)...when my stuff was sent home, I was just given one of the contractors for my installation, I didn't have time to look around or ask questions...those, in any events, are my thoughts...I'd also expect the ARNG family-support personnel must certainly have and/or keep lists of suitable groups, they at least think reasonably reliable...if I find any professional associations that handle movers, I'll try to send any listings, calling professional groups of that sort, my wife and I find, generally prove to be among the best ways to get reasonably reliable names, rather than just picking randomly from a yellow pages, or doing searches online, honest, hope that was of at least some help, in any event, if you have any luck, I'd be most eager to know, certainly, as well, of course.

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made Mar 26 at 2019 7:24 PM

Capt Daniel Goodman — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 19:24:51 -0400

https://www.veteransadvantage.com/

You might try these people...they gave us free membership cards for myself and my wife, as I'm total perm disabled, I've asked about them, they're quite real, I gather, whether they know anything about moving or not, I honestly don't know, however, you might at least find joining them, and/or chatting with their staff, of possible use, if nothing else, I'll try to find more comparable stuff, OK?

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Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made Mar 26 at 2019 7:26 PM

Capt Daniel Goodman — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 19:26:56 -0400

https://search.aol.com/aol/search?q=professional%20association%20of%20moving%20companies&s_it=loki-tb-sb

Try looking through these, and see if any of them might possibly be of any use at all....

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Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made Mar 26 at 2019 7:27 PM

Capt Daniel Goodman — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 19:27:44 -0400

http://www.ausa.org

Also, you might also call AUSA as well, they might have those who deal with such questions....

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Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made Mar 26 at 2019 7:29 PM

Capt Daniel Goodman — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 19:29:08 -0400

http://www.ngaus.org

I'd seen you're ARNG, as I'd mentioned before, you might also try NGAUS....

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Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made Mar 26 at 2019 7:29 PM

Capt Daniel Goodman — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 19:29:37 -0400

http://www.armymwr.com

Try them as well....

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Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made Mar 26 at 2019 7:30 PM

Capt Daniel Goodman — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 19:30:31 -0400

https://search.aol.com/aol/search?q=national%20guard%20family%20programs&s_it=loki-tb-sb

Look through these....

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Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made Mar 26 at 2019 7:31 PM

Capt Daniel Goodman — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 19:31:45 -0400

https://www.jointservicessupport.org/FP/Default.aspx

And esp. this, they're explicitly for Natl Guard, incl ARNG, I'd be extremely surprised if they don't have staff who help with moving aspects, or can help you find a reliable group, honest....

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Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made Mar 26 at 2019 7:32 PM

Capt Daniel Goodman — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 19:32:59 -0400

https://search.aol.com/aol/search?q=military%20relocation%20professional%20association%20of%20america&s_it=loki-tb-sb

Bingo, these should be pretty close to spot on....

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Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made Mar 26 at 2019 7:35 PM

Capt Daniel Goodman — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 19:35:56 -0400

http://militaryrelocationpro.org/

These guys in particular, they're involved with the Natl Assoc of Realtors, call them, even if you stay on installation, or whether you'd be off installation, wherever you and/or your husband would be, I should certainly think they'd most definitely at least be able to help you, ask for a supervisor and/or manager, possibly also the office of their executive director, to at least ask to speak with the right staff, rather than just asking the first staffer to answer the phone, that's what we usually do all the time with stuff like this, honest, OK? Hope that all helps, as I'd said, lemme know your thoughts, if you'd wanna chat more, no rush, whenever you want, OK?

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Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 26 at 2019 8:55 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:55:06 -0400

How long has your husband been at his duty station? Did he have a HHG pick up? Every Soldier has a weight allowance of authorized HHG that the government will pack, pick up and deliver to the new location. Have your husband to go to transportation at his duty location with his orders so they can assist with your move at government expense.

Response by Maj John Bell made Mar 27 at 2019 3:05 AM

Maj John Bell — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 03:05:06 -0400

Somewhere at tour duty station there is a transportation and movement office. It is the job of those people to get your household goods moved. You give them information and they do all the work.

Response by SFC Casey O'Mally made Mar 27 at 2019 6:20 PM

SFC Casey O'Mally — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 18:20:04 -0400

I am confused. If you are a PVT, why are you worried about getting your stuff to your husband's duty station? Don't you need to worry about getting it to YOUR duty station?

Assuming that the two are the same, you use your orders at the transportation office to schedule a shipment of household goods (HHG).

If you and your husband have different duty stations, then your stuff cannot be sent to him by the Army. They can only do transportation from his current location (or address at time of enlistment, if in the case of initial duty station) to his new location. I ran in to this problem when I PCSed from Florida to Hawaii (I know... rough life!). My soon-to-be-ex-wife moved to New York while I was in school and took ALL of my stuff with her - cleared housing and the works. I had a couple duffle bags which I had with me at school. Army would NOT ship from NY where my stuff was. I had to drive up to NY and fit as much as I could in my POV (I couldn't afford a moving truck from NY to FL). What I had present in FL shipped to HI. The rest became my wife's stuff, because I just didn't have the ability to move it.

Now... if his stuff has not yet shipped, and you can get your stuff to where his stuff is, then your stuff can be included with his stuff, up to the allowable weight limit.