Weezy
01-30-12, 08:49 PM
Good evening,
For some of you may know that I received accompanied orders to Okinawa for my first duty station and apparently that's very rare, my delima is my sponsor who's a Sgt just said " I would highly suggest that you have at least $6000 saved up before you get out here, do your taxes if you need extra money. I went through more than that my first month out here between the hotel, cars for me and my wife and rent/deposit on housing. You will have to pay for the hotel when you check out, depending on how long you stay there until you get housing, I was there for almost 2 weeks and it was like $900, but you get reimbursed once you do your travel claim so it all works out, you just need the money ahead of time."
We didn't know we was going overseas to Oki until a few days ago. Im being detached from my unit on the 6th and not sure when my port call is. This week will be getting the port call taken care of, area clearance and overseas screening.
The thing is I don't have access to $6k, I can't get a loan or a co-signer, my vehicle isn't worth the collateral amount for them to finance. I know the relief society isn't going to loan out a 6 thousand dollar loan. Parents are strapped for cash. Where can I go? Even if I sold my vehicle I would be upside down with that. Now my dad said you could ask for an advancement which I haven't heard of but is that even possible?
Semper Fi,
LCpl Randle
For some of you may know that I received accompanied orders to Okinawa for my first duty station and apparently that's very rare, my delima is my sponsor who's a Sgt just said " I would highly suggest that you have at least $6000 saved up before you get out here, do your taxes if you need extra money. I went through more than that my first month out here between the hotel, cars for me and my wife and rent/deposit on housing. You will have to pay for the hotel when you check out, depending on how long you stay there until you get housing, I was there for almost 2 weeks and it was like $900, but you get reimbursed once you do your travel claim so it all works out, you just need the money ahead of time."
We didn't know we was going overseas to Oki until a few days ago. Im being detached from my unit on the 6th and not sure when my port call is. This week will be getting the port call taken care of, area clearance and overseas screening.
The thing is I don't have access to $6k, I can't get a loan or a co-signer, my vehicle isn't worth the collateral amount for them to finance. I know the relief society isn't going to loan out a 6 thousand dollar loan. Parents are strapped for cash. Where can I go? Even if I sold my vehicle I would be upside down with that. Now my dad said you could ask for an advancement which I haven't heard of but is that even possible?
Semper Fi,
LCpl Randle