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[iii_likegiants]

Mostly to Marine Wives off base:

How long did your housing application take?

I love how I haven't even set a date for this wedding [have to wait til he's gets stationed] and I'm stressing about stuff already. I'm making myself sick.

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[lovebird]

Oh gah. Housing pissed me off. They told us it'd be like 6+ months of waiting and then they called us with a house after we'd been down here three weeks. Literally RIGHT after we dropped all the money on our apartment's security deposit/rent and had moved in. We figured they wouldn't give us any housing pay since we would be living in base housing then so it'd be like throwing that 1200 we just spent out the window. It irritated my husband because they acted so shocked we'd moved into an apartment 'so fast' like we were supposed to have been living on the street somewhere waiting around for them to call. Wow that was really long and personal but my point is I think it just depends. To be honest before I moved I really wanted to live on base. I thought it would be nicer, safer, cheaper, etc. Which might be true for some areas but we totally make money off of our housing allowance because our rent is cheap. We're literally 2 minutes from the front gate of the base and still in a nice safe place. Just saying don't rule out the idea of living off base.

To be honest you sound a lot like me a year ago this time. We got married in between my hubby finishing up his tech school training and reporting to his first duty station too. I totally feel you on not even knowing your wedding date, I didn't know mine until 2 weeks beforehand hah. I spent like the entire summer of 2007 stressing out about nearly everything. Been there done that and SURVIIIIIVED. There's light at the end of your tunnel yet.

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[iii_likegiants]

We wont be getting married until he gets stationed so we can figure out a better date. I don't know much about anything, and I can't ask him because he's at MCT so no phone, but I don't get it - am I supposed to wait around at home alone, a married woman, until we get housing where he is stationed?

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[lovebird]

You'll probably just have to get an apartment or something until housing calls if you want to live with him. Is there any particular reason why you want to live on base? I had thought about letting Chris go ahead of me to the base and finding us a place and then me move down separate but we ended up going together. After being apart for bootcamp and tech school the last thing I wanted to do was sit around at home more especially after we were married. For the first week or so we stayed at a temporary lodging thing on base which was like a little apartment. They gave him a week off to find housing too. I'm not sure how it works as far as that in the marines or if he only got those days because he got married before he got to the base. I used AHRN.com to find our apartment. You can search by what his housing allowance should be. When you register on the site it'll say some crap about having to verify you're military but all you have to do is check a box and you can make an account. They had a lot of places up there and some with military discounts on the application fees/security deposits.

Totally showing this isn't my branch...whats MCT? I remember when you posted and he was in bootcamp. The marines must be way more hardcore hah. After bootcamp I got to talk to Chris every day on the phone and on AIM.

You know I think I just realized I was reading your question wrong all the time. Did you mean how long it took to get the housing allowance money started or how long it takes to get a house on base haha.

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[iii_likegiants]

I don't want to live on base I want to live on base. A Marine wife told me I have we have to apply for off base housing as well [to get BAH maybe?].

MCT is military combat training. Another 28 days of not being able to talk to him after three months of not being able to talk to him in bootcamp. Boooo =[

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[iii_likegiants]

Ahhh it's 930 and I just woke up.
Edit: I dont want to live on base I want to live OFF base.

Its way too early.

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[lovebird]

He should be able to live off base right away if they know you're married. It'll just be waiting for the BAH to kick in. It took about 2-3ish months for us to get all the back pay including BAH backpay and the extra pay for being married. I think that's about the normal time frame for all the paperwork to go through and them get it straight. So I'd suggest to start saving up your money now. Just know you'll get reimbursed for it all. You just have to wing it for the first few months.