pcsing to hawai

[ajcranky]

Greetings everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could help me with a transportation question. I am new to the military and right now I am currently at OBLC and am trying to arrange transportation to TAMC in Hawaii. My report date is for January 2nd. I will be done w/training here on the 14th of December and would like to go home to upper michigan for Christmas and leave the next day for my new duty station.

I'm dropping my car off at Dallas VPC to be shipped to Hawaii so I can't drive home so I wanted to see if I could schedule a stop back home on the way to my next duty station and then just pay the difference of the plane fare. I went to the local Carlson Wagonlit agency on base to see if I could arrange for this and they said they didn't think they could arrange for me to fly home because the airport near my residence isn't a major hub even though there are connecting flights from several major airports like o'hare and detroit. They also said that they can't schedule any flights from the 22nd to the 31st of December and told me that I would have to leave either the 21st and miss the holidays or fly out on the 1st of January.

I really would like to be home for Christmas but I don't want to stay until New Years Day because 1) I don't want to blow through that much leave right off the bat because I have a couple of important events this summer (weddings and the like) that I would like to be able to take time off for and 2) due to the winters in upper michigan, it's very possible my flight could be cancelled or delayed and I don't want to have to be showing up late to my first duty station. I've been having trouble getting back into contact with carlson wagonlit because they close before classes are over.

Would anyone happen to know if the army would reimburse me if I purchased a ticket on my own or know where I could be directed to for answers to my question? Also, I was curious as to why they blacked out that whole week for possible flights. Do stations prefer not to have inprocessing for that week? If anyone could help out, it would be greatly appreciated. Have a friend here who is in the same boat as I am and we don't know where to go to for help.

Thanks so much!

[Gennaver, MSN]

Hello,

I just completed the previous OBLC and know two of the folks who pcs'd to Trippler. There was a large group.

They both dropped their cars off, one flew to Hawaii and the other went home for a visit to Chicago first for a few days.

I remember there were several meetings where the Nurse liasons called the Overseas folks to talk.

Rather than speak to the flight agency on post at FSH I'd recommend you contact your Nurse Liasons at OBLC. Send an email to the Major, she really was very helpful and kept us on track!

Good luck, welcome and hooah!

Gen-in San Antonio