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[DSMHondaGuy]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

That's how the Military operates. They give a flat amount based on certain criteria for moving (distance, family size, etc). You can spend it or keep it.

Not exactly, more like you can use it or not, you dont get to keep the difference if you don't. And yes the military pays for the transport of 1 vehicle and your house hold goods if your stationed somewhere in Europe.

[freebeard]

when my brother returned from Germany i suggested he bring back a Unimog or a Münch Mammoth:


He didn't.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by DSMHondaGuy

Not exactly, more like you can use it or not, you dont get to keep the difference if you don't. And yes the military pays for the transport of 1 vehicle and your house hold goods if your stationed somewhere in Europe.

I've not been in the military, but I helped my friend move his house from Enid, OK to Portland, OR. He choose to load up a moving van and got the most fuel efficient one he could find to save money. According to him, he got to pocket the difference in cost between hiring a moving company to move everything, and doing it himself, including whatever he saved in fuel.

[DSMHondaGuy]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

I've not been in the military, but I helped my friend move his house from Enid, OK to Portland, OR. He choose to load up a moving van and got the most fuel efficient one he could find to save money. According to him, he got to pocket the difference in cost between hiring a moving company to move everything, and doing it himself, including whatever he saved in fuel.

The military will pay you for moving your own **** in the same direction of your new duty station.

[stefanv]

Originally Posted by Xist

The problem is this is normal.

I had a semi with a trailer cross a double yellow to pass me a week ago. That seemed more significant than a bozo in a lifted truck.

That happened to my wife once too. She passed the same semi, overturned in the ditch, about 10 minutes later.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by DSMHondaGuy

The military will pay you for moving your own **** in the same direction of your new duty station.

Ah yes, now as I recall he was going from active duty to civilian when he made that move. But, I also recall hearing something about being paid per pound of stuff moved, up to some limit. So, if you can move it more economically than they pay you, the difference can be pocketed. I know he was paid to move from Portland to Enid when he received his orders, and he profited from it.

[Xist]

I am glad to say I did not see that semi overturned in a ditch.

The Army would have shipped my car to Germany and back had I not sold it already and would have stored it for the year I was deployed. Can you imagine finding an old Egg McMuffin after all of that time?

One of our Sergeants said his hood was damaged in transport and nobody would accept responsibility. I always heard horror stories of Soldiers changing duty stations and having their stuff stolen. One roommate had them pack up a thousand CDs. The cases arrived empty. I had stuff stolen from my duffel bags in Afghanistan, gear disappeared en-route back to Germany, and stolen from the storage room where we were ordered to keep our gear. When I came home the Army kept $1,550 of my last two paychecks to cover stolen inventory. I bought three large rolling duffel bags to have my most important belongings on the plane home with me, but supposedly the Germans were honest, it was the employees in the U.S. and whoever handled my stuff leaving Afghanistan.

Eventually I found the Fighting Load Carrier that cost me $75. Amazon has it for $12.49, plus free shipping: https://www.amazon.com/SDS-Official-.../dp/B004IURGGY

Someone stole one from a female Soldier in my Guard unit and they did not charge her for it.

[DSMHondaGuy]

May great mounds of **** be upon the thieves of the military. When I ETS'ed I got hit but not as bad as you, $780 worth of ****. I was pissed because half of it was on the list of **** they didn't want


Friday when I printed it off and packed everything so the movers come Saturday for household goods, Monday comes and the list changed and suddenly CIF wants half the **** that's on its way to America and didn't give a **** that there was nothing I could have done to be right here.


Green weenie got me again...

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by DSMHondaGuy

And yes the military pays for the transport of 1 vehicle and your house hold goods if your stationed somewhere in Europe.

That seems really, really strange. I don't recall people ever getting to take more than the usual duffel bag overseas. But the people I knew were going the opposite direction from Europe.

[gumby79]

There's a massive difference between deployment and Duity station. deployment you take your assigned gear. Duty station you take your household goods. When I ETS they paid the same whether shipper took it or I took it. If I could do it cheaper than a shipper/moving company, which I did as I took my own vehicle(3/4t '79 K20+'04 Mitsubishi) and didn't have to rent a truck, then the shavings was prophet . They paied by weight+1 POV ( personally owned vehicle) I had 2 the tow vehicle they paid fuel and the second vehicle they paid transport cost by the pound.