Orders Question

[boobcheese]

I will be commisioning in a couple of weeks and just got my orders. I was wondering if orders typically state the number of dependents for the purpose of PCS-ing (I am prior enlisted and seem to recall my dependents being mentioned on previous sets of orders).

 

[Hursel110]

They don't, at least not in plain english. It could possibly be hidden in some of the accounting data, if you can translate it into english.

 

[HH-60H]

I will be commisioning in a couple of weeks and just got my orders. I was wondering if orders typically state the number of dependents for the purpose of PCS-ing (I am prior enlisted and seem to recall my dependents being mentioned on previous sets of orders).

I seem to recall it's w/deps or w/o deps.

 

[boobcheese]

OK, I dug up my last set of orders and they state "this transfer is funded for member and 2 dependents" while my current orders make no reference to dependents at all. I don't want to call my detailer if its common for dependents to not be specifically mentioned on orders but then again I don't want to go to set up my move only to find that they will allow just the single HHG weight based on my current orders.

 

[HH-60H]

OK, I dug up my last set of orders and they state "this transfer is funded for member and 2 dependents" while my current orders make no reference to dependents at all. I don't want to call my detailer if its common for dependents to not be specifically mentioned on orders but then again I don't want to go to set up my move only to find that they will allow just the single HHG weight based on my current orders.

I would say, but I am not sure, that at minimum it should say PCS w/dep, not specifying any number. The w/dep phrase is important because I think it gives you a larger HHG weight allowance.