When your family members get orders to travel you will need to plan ahead for the expenses. The military pays for their plane tickets. However you won't be able to get a travel advance for them. Once they get in country you will be reimbursed for their lodging, etc. Some things you can do to help defer the cost of lodging, etc. is to:
1. Get an Advance on your pay. This way you will have the funds available for their lodging if you need them. The advance pay is an interest free loan that is paid back over a 12 month period. This is what the DOD Pay Regulation has to say about it: Regulation number 320102. Advance of Pay and Allowances. The purpose of an advance of pay is to ease hardships imposed by the lack of regular payments when a member is mobilized, ordered to duty at distant stations, or deployed aboard ships for more than 30 days.
2. Use a credit card then pay it off when you get reimbursed.
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