You'll find that out after you check in at Pensacola. You're IFS date in your orders isn't exact either.
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OHARP to IFS
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Circa 2008 they were assigning but if you had a good reason for wanting a location they were likely to give it to you. Case in point, my roommate's fiancee was doing EOD training in Panama City so they let her do IFS at Eglin so it would be easier for her to see him. Your mileage may vary.
WEGL12
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My class was given the chance to pick which school we wanted to attend. It may have been because there were more slots than people that week. That said I know a lot of people that were told what school they would attend.
i talked to the DIVO where I am OHARPing and he thinks I will either get some type of dislocation allowance or even perhaps the move completely covered when my wife and I move up to Pcola? Any experience on if we actually do get some type of moving allowance?
also note that the orders say IFS is not a PCS and I get that but since I'll basically be in Pensacola for a year or more with the move to Whiting does it qualify?
Follow up: IFS and API most likely will have the accounting code ACC341 which doesn't allow for your dependents to be covered for a move. For that phase you only get 600lbs for yourself. Once you hit primary you are eligible for the family move of 10,000lbs. You'll see ACC342 next to that phase in your orders at which you should plan to move your family around that time frame. Sucks and seems backwards to me since the orders x months in advance say you are moving to whiting but it is what it is. Maybe this will help someone else plan accordingly.
correct but only to milton not for the pcola portion. i've been around the horn and they keep telling me I get nothing until after API and I cant wait that long to move my stuff
All my stuff is moving down there when I do mid-February (coming from OHARP); it's all already scheduled and approved. No one at the housing office has given me any problems with it (same situation: dependents, PCS to NASWF not NASP). Haven't asked for DLA yet, but I was given a travel advance within a week of finishing OCS.
I also had personal property move all of my stuff the moment I got to PCOLA. I'm pretty sure it has to do with the fact that your intermediate activity is in the same geographic location as you're permanent activity. I think I remember my friends who DITY moved not being able to collect their money until they checked into Whiting, but not 100% on that. Just know that they'll only pay for one move. So if you're going to move the fam while in API, live somewhere in between the two bases so you don't have to pay out of pocket to move to Milton.