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Teen age daughter's bird cage unbeknown to us had lots of roaches. Trucking company said they would not ship our stuff. It turned out to be a full blown DITY move. Our hired cleaning woman stole 12 oz. of solid gold jewelry. WTU at Riley said I had enough time to move while a lot of my stuff was still at Leavenworth. So we drove at night to move some of the stuff. Instead of helping me the COC was made it worse.
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Mine were OK. However my neighbor lost his fairly new SUV when it was in a MILVAN and transferred from ship to barge in Kodiak. Cable slipped and it went 600 feet down into Davy Jones' Locker. Claims were denied for some time because a claims agent couldn't inspect the loss. Then denied again because Admiralty Law somehow gave them an out. You needed to spend your own money to take them to Admiralty Court. Took a Senator to get the Service to reimburse and it was the Service's job to get it out of the mover if they wanted. Funny thing, back in the day, this stuff happened all the time with the Move Office repetitively unable to get a grip.
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I always hand carried my jewlery. I lost a piggy bank, flat screen tv and alot of broken furnitures with military move. Dont leave your stuff in storage, moles will take some of those items. These are cheap labor guys, so they will come in your home and pack everything if you dont monitor. If I have a choice, dity move is the best. Than again its time consuming to drive with all your stuff and worried about a break down.
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When departing Hawaii, they had our stuff packed away in eight 6'x8'x10' wooden crates. Somehow it got separated and ended up on two different boats. Had to wait an extra month because the trucking company wouldn't ship a partial load. When we finally received the stuff several months later, one crate had a hole on top the size of a rucksack. Everything in that crate was soaking wet (still dripping). That happened to be the crate with photo albums, all of our towels and bedding, uniforms and clothes. I immediately contacted the Transportation Office and they sent out a Rep that day. She was blown away when she saw the mold on everything. We had to pretty much throw away everything in that crate. Got a settlement check that didn't even cover half of the damage. Got something like $20 per photo album.
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When I commissioned via the green to gold active duty option - there hadn't been a whole lot of us in the army period up to that point..... I was kind of the unicorn in the room at my ROTC program. In retrospect.... The Cadre really didn't understand what needed to happen administratively when I commissioned. .... So I go to Ft. Sill for BOLC as a Geo Bachelor (My family stayed @ Lewis) and they sit all the LTs in this room & the finance guys do a huge gangbang leave form tutorial. I tell the finance guy that I was still receiving E5 pay, and nothing in my AKO had changed to O-1. "Don't worry LT, I got you"
Needless to say, 3 months later I was still being paid as an E5, but with a BAH rate of E5 w/o dependents in Lawton OK. At least before I was getting BAH as an E5 w/ dependents for Ft. Lewis (about a $600 difference). Did I mention the part where I was paying rent twice?!
The story culminates w/ me in essence not existing to the US Army. Thank god I had OCD when it came to paper records. Every award, set of orders, oath of office, transcripts ect...... I had to sit with a lady for 4 hours and administratively go through the accession process.... Unreal. I got back pay for everything....but all in all it was very painful
Needless to say, 3 months later I was still being paid as an E5, but with a BAH rate of E5 w/o dependents in Lawton OK. At least before I was getting BAH as an E5 w/ dependents for Ft. Lewis (about a $600 difference). Did I mention the part where I was paying rent twice?!
The story culminates w/ me in essence not existing to the US Army. Thank god I had OCD when it came to paper records. Every award, set of orders, oath of office, transcripts ect...... I had to sit with a lady for 4 hours and administratively go through the accession process.... Unreal. I got back pay for everything....but all in all it was very painful
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CPT Joseph K Murdock
I have found with the government, when it is wrong, it takes an act of congress to fix things.
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Col Jim Harmon
Same here. Last move out of Hawaii, the first crate they opend I saw my Honda Goldwing motorcycle standing up on it's nose on top of my recliner. It went down hill rapidly from there.
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