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.

Relocation Assistance Program - Relocation services at Atsugi's Fleet and Family Support Center help service members, Department of Defense civilians and their families deal with the stress of moving by providing education, information and individualized assistance. It offers a variety of relocation assistance services including AOB and ICR classes; Newcomer Spouse Information, Orientation, Teen and Children's Area Orientation; Sponsorship Program; and Japanese translation services. Relocation specialists provide services to help you adjust to your move quickly and successfully whether you are arriving or departing the Naval Air Facility Atsugi area. Classes and workshops are offered to ease your transition.

Area Orientation Brief and Inter-Cultural Relations Class - Upon your arrival to NAF Atsugi, this is one of the very first classes in which you will have the opportunity to participate. During this class, you will be introduced to all the services and facilities available to you on NAF Atsugi and have the privilege of learning a vast array of Japanese culture. Please verify with your sponsor if they have made your reservation. If you would like to personally verify your reservation, feel free to contact the FFSC information desk at DSN 315-264-3372 or by dialing 011-81-0467-63-3372.

Reservations for AOB and ICR class are recommended as soon as your sponsor receives notification your PCS to NAF Atsugi. Both classes are mandatory for you to receive your Status of Forces Agreement driver’s license in Japan. However, ICR class may be waived upon email request by an E7 or above from the gaining command to the relocation program manager. Reasons for waiver include personnel PCSing from an installation in Japan within a one-year time frame or is a Japanese national. We look forward to meeting you!

1. AOB/ICR CLASS INFORMATION: AOB/ICR starts Monday at 8 a.m. – in Classroom 129, NAF Atsugi Headquarters, Building 949, first floor.

2. ATTIRE:

• AOB: Working Uniform of the Day
• ICR: Appropriate civilian attire in accordance with Commander Naval Forces Japan Civilian Clothing Policy, COMNAVFORJAPANINST 1020.3B

3. CANCELLATION/RESCHEDULING: If the attendee is unable to attend AOB/ICR, please immediately contact FFSC at 315-264-3372.

SOFA Driver's License Class/safeTALK - The orientation track also includes Driver's License training and safeTALK suicide awareness training, which are held on Tuesday. Dress will be appropriate civilian attire in accordance with Commander Naval Forces Japan Civilian Clothing Policy, COMNAVFORJAPANINST 1020.3B. For registration or for more information, please call DSN at 315-264-3794, 011-81-467-633794 or visit the driver's license office upon your arrival in Building 146. These classes can also be waived if the memeber has proof of previous attendance. 

Child care AOB/ICR - Participants in AOB/ICR will be given free child care vouchers while they are attending the AOB/ICR class. Reserve a spot for your child (aged 6 weeks to 5 years, or after-school programs for ages 5 to 10 years) at NAF Atsugi’s Child Development Center. Reservations for your child can be made through the Child Youth Program website. All the forms you need are available online and can be submitted back for registration. You can also contact the CDC’s central registration at DSN 315-264-3588 or 011-81-0467-63-3588. Once you’ve arrived in Atsugi, you need to go to Branch Medical Clinic to have your child’s immunization records updated and transcribed. Bring the records to the CDC and your child can be admitted.

Permanent Change of Station Workshop - Get the latest on travel rules and pay, household goods shipments and vacating quarters or your Japanese home.

Sponsor Workshop - Learn to be a well-informed sponsor and ensure inbound personnel and family members are briefed and warmly welcomed in Japan. The instructor will highlight ways to help your incoming command families before they arrive, how to help them adjust once they have arrived and places that you and the incoming family can go for information. If you plan on sponsoring a command family, this class will provide you with a wonderful checklist to ensure that you don't miss any important issues for incoming families. Make sure you do the eSponsorship Training at the Military OneSource website, whether you are a sponsor or the incoming personnel.

Loan Closet - NAF Atsugi FFSC offers temporary use of basic hospitality kits. These include:

• Dish kit: silverware, plates, glasses and cups
• Cooking kit: pots and pans, knives, utensils, and cutting boards
• Accessory kit: toaster, iron, coffee maker, can/bottle opener, handheld mixer, electric knife, telephone and rice cookers

These kits are designed and intended to support the basic needs of a family during brief arrival and departure periods to ease the relocation stress. Service members and their family, even civilians, can loan the kit for a month. Extensions are granted on a case-by-case basis.

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