With the Defense Department’s Thursday announcement that all PCS and temporary duty moves are on hold for the next 60 days, members of all four services are finding themselves in the same predicament, relying on emergency relief funds and unit-by-unit authorizations of per diem to cover their costs while they wait.
“We think that rather than moving back and forth, that you’re better protecting in place,” Joint Chiefs chairman Army Gen. Mark Milley told reporters on Thursday.
But the fallout includes troops and families who have packed up their lives, checked out of housing and were preparing to board planes to their new duty stations now suspended in place.
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