How much time do I need left in my contract to PCS?

2020-05-14T15:35:45-04:00

I’ve been at my duty station for two years and I want to request to PCS because of marriage except I don’t want to reinlist because my husband already did

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made May 14 at 2020 3:38 PM

2020-05-14T15:38:20-04:00

Bottom line, you're going to have to reenlist.

If you were enrolled in MACP when your husband reenlisted for his duty station, you will be placed on assignment to the same place he's going. You'll have to extend or reenlist to meet the SRR depending on where you are going.

Response by MSgt Gilbert Jones made May 14 at 2020 4:14 PM

2020-05-14T16:14:06-04:00

On my first enlistment I had 12 months left and received a 15 month assignment. Back then the regulation stated you had to either re enlist or be discharged on your discharge date. At that time I wasn't planning on re-enlisting. When I arrived a McGuire AFB, NJ, personnel folks asked me why was I being sent and didn't have enough time to complete the assignment. Won't repeat what I told the indiv. What was funny, when my discharge date arrived, they had to return me to the states, but I got promoted just before then, collected travel pay back to where I first enlisted then they still had to return me to the states on my previous discharged date. What really made it good was I was stationed in Goose Bay Labrador, it was the only place where you collected travel pay from outside of the states to your home of record or next duty rather then port of entry. My next duty station was San Bernardino CA. It pays to learn other regulations other then those pertaining to your AFSC/MOS. The finance clerk didn't know that and didn't want to pay me until I showed him what his own regulation said.