Grrr... PCS stress

Re: Grrr... PCS stress

• mom3boys2girls

  July 2012

  Rosebud2587:

  Ugh, I hate the process of finding out where you'll PCS to next. Why do they even let you pick your top 5 if it all seems to be like a giant craps shoot anyways? Why do they guarantee you that you won't go back to where you just came from (Bliss) if it then appears that Bliss is now a possibility again? Grrr.

  
  

  Our top 5 were 

  Campbell

  Richardson

  Germany

  Carson 

  Bragg 

  
  

  All but Carson were eliminated right off the bat. Then were were told we would be sent to either Carson, Stewart or Benning. Then a mass email was sent out saying that too many people (28) had those 3 on their top 5 and there are only 8 slots open so people needed to rethink their choices. Then were were told Carson is now out of the running. No word on Benning but Stewart is still an option and apparently so is Bliss (again). I do not want to go back to Bliss. We just finally moved away from there and the first time we went there it was in our bottom 2! 

  
  

  
  

  There are many posts, bases, etc in Germany.  Maybe there is more than one option if you want Germany.  If you want a list for Army posts in Germany - here is a link with a list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_installations_in_Germany

  For CONUS here is a link to a list.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_installations  

   

  Hopefully that could help in finding something besides Ft. Bliss (especially if you don't want to go back there).  Also depending on career field, sometimes there are openings at AF or Navy bases. 

  Also sometimes there are openings available for special duty assignments.  One example is the post office.  A friend did a two year special duty in Germany at one of the post offices there - even though his career field involved computers.    There are options, just try to get them looked at quick before any orders are cut.  
  

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• Rosebud2587 member

  July 2012

  mom3boys2girls:

  
  

  There are many posts, bases, etc in Germany.  Maybe there is more than one option if you want Germany.  If you want a list for Army posts in Germany - here is a link with a list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_installations_in_Germany

  For CONUS here is a link to a list.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_installations  

   

  Hopefully that could help in finding something besides Ft. Bliss (especially if you don't want to go back there).  Also depending on career field, sometimes there are openings at AF or Navy bases. 

  Also sometimes there are openings available for special duty assignments.  One example is the post office.  A friend did a two year special duty in Germany at one of the post offices there - even though his career field involved computers.    There are options, just try to get them looked at quick before any orders are cut.  
  

  
  

  I know there are multiple posts in Germany but we were told to generalize and then if you got picked for Germany they would figure out which post to put you in after. 

  
  

  We're trying to go somewhere with a combat engineer command position open as my husband needs his command time so a special duty assignment wouldn't really work for us atm. 

   

  Munchkin born 11/22/11

  
  Pipsqueak born 6/9/14
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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