Deferred Travel

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.

Orders For Family Members

Once you have command sponsorship for your family you will still need to get them orders. In Area 1, Camp Red Cloud (CRC), the service member travels without the family members. Concurrent travel is usually not authorized for this area. After you in-process at Camp Stanley, follow these steps to get travel orders for your family.

Step 1: Talk to the Housing Office at CRC.
Step 2: The housing office will give them a list of approved realtors that will help them find a suitable apartment.
Step 3: After you find an apartment you take the forms back to housing, where they will review the lease (before you sign it) and inspect the apartment you chose.
Step 4: Assuming all went well in Step 3, your request is sent to Yongsan for approval. Once it is approved they issue orders for your family.
Step 5: Once you have the orders then you sign the agreement and have a move in date.

Note: You will be loaned money for your first months rent and deposit.