Relocation Assistance

Your Military and Family Support Center provides relocation assistance to help make PCS moves as smooth as possible. Resources include:

• PCS planning: Most relocation assistance programs offer consultations to help you with the moving process. If this your first military move, your first time moving overseas or you have challenging or complex circumstances contact your installation Relocation Assistance Program as soon as possible for support.
• Plan My Move: An online Defense Department relocation tool that provides you with customizable checklists and links to helpful resources for the tasks ahead.
• Military OneSource: A website and call center that offer 24/7 support for moving information and resources. Learn more about PCS basics and download this fact sheet 7 Steps to Make Your Household Goods Move a Smart Move. For comprehensive moving resources and information, including Defense Personal Property log in details, visit Moving Your Personal Property.
• Workshops and briefings: Workshops vary by location. You may find classes on housing options, moving with children, moving with pets and more.
• Predeparture briefings: These sessions provide essential information about your move and may be required for some populations.
• Special needs: If you have a child or family member enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program, contact your installation EFMP-Family Support office to assist you.
• Settling-in services: Look for welcome programs or local area tours that may offered. Overseas services may include introductory language classes and cultural awareness activities.
• Foreign-born spouse support: Assistance includes information and referral to resources such as immigration and naturalization.
• Emergency assistance: Sometime emergencies occur while moving. The Military and Family Support Center has the resources to provide emergency financial assistance, as well as information and referrals.
• Authorized housing flexibility options: Eligible service members with PCS orders may be entitled to flexibilities such as extended stays in government housing and early housing eligibility. Contact your military personnel office for more information.
• Spouse licensure reimbursement: Your service branch may reimburse spouses up to $1,000 for relicensure and certification costs resulting from relocations or PCS moves. See this Military OneSource article Transferring Your Professional License for more information and specific service branch policies.

The Marine Corps Logistics Base (MCLB) Albany Information, Referral, and Relocation program (IRR) is designed to assist military and  DoD personnel and their families who are relocating to a new duty station, being deployed, or who are separating or retiring from service.

IRR educates military and their family members about relocating, enhancing their skills to make the transition from one community to another as trouble-free and smooth as possible.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS) briefs are held the 4th Thursday of each month except December at bldg 7122 0900-1200.  Information includes transfer circumstances and needs, sponsor at new location, moving costs and entitlements, housing, childcare, local employment assistance, cultural and community orientation, relocation stress management, Exceptional Family Member Program information, overseas assignment screening to ensure facilities are available to support the family, especially those with special needs.

For newcomers, "Welcome Aboard Packages" are available in bldg 7122 and a Welcome Aboard Brief is held every 3rd Thursday 0900-1200 in bldg 7122.  

MCLB Albany has only a very small number of military deploying from the area. Information on handling deployments and reunions is available from the Marine Corps Family Team Building Program Readiness and Deployment Support program at 229-639-5767 or by contacting your unit's Uniformed Readiness Coordinator.

Let the information and referral specialist be your first point of contact for any concerns. I&R can provide you with information for on-base and off-base community resources, eligibility requirements, points of contact and current telephone numbers and addresses.

You may contact IRR by calling 229-639-6440 or DSN 312-567-6440.

Lending Locker:  At present, MCLB Albany does not offer the Lending Locker Program