Hi im an E-5 Currently deployed in Iraq, i need your help i was lucky enough to reup down here to get JAPAN, i have orders now for Torii Station i believe its in Okinawa thats whats showing in my ERB im headed for the 10th Area Support Group UIC (WERGAA) i was on orders for 10 Dec 07 but with this 15th month extension i will be pushing it till March. I want to know everything, i mean everything you got to tell me please tell me things that you wish youd know before you got there to make this as easy as you can for me. Im married, and have 2 Children please talk to me about schools in torri, BAH, BAS, Cola, and where more than likely i will live? do you prefer on post or outside? is it Hooah or relaxed? How much can i buy a decent SUV for? how hard is it to extend. am i gonna be making alot of money as everyone claims to? just anything to get me ahead of the game. I really appreciate all that reply to my questions as i will finally be with my family after 32 months! if you cant answer my questions here ill gladly read them on my ako edwin.moloyalvarado@us.army.mil
It's not all bad. You may see I complain in some of my other post but thats only on the day to day things. Things here are done somewhat **s backwards. And you're going to 10th SG (lmao), good luck with that. That unit is NCO HEAVY, especially at E6 & E7. The 1SG, CSM & Group Cmdr are good people though. I get to interact with them on a day to day basis. Even though there are many things for single soldiers to do, this place was MADE for married soldiers. The schools are on Kadena & I believe there's one on Camp Foster (Marine base)..COLA should be around $750-$8000 bucks....You can either live off base or on base at either Kadena AFB or Camp Foster...Living off base expect to have all your OHA sucked up by the landlords. They base your rent off your rank (ex. E6 gets $1700..they charge them $1700 for rent, kinda shady). This place, Hooah.??? lol that was funny. It'll probably be cheaper for you & your spouse to buy a car a piece instead of a SUV considering roads are small as hell and the price of gas over here...It's not very hard to extend but why would you in a unit thats so NCO heavy? What's your MOS and I can tell you exactly what section you'll probably be working in. Shoot me your email addy and I'll send some info that you can't get from online sources.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. -Aldous Huxley
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