Naval Air Station Patuxent River  Base Essentials

Check-in starts at the 24-hour-a-day Command Duty Office, 301-342-1095/1096, or at your command check-in point. Have your orders stamped at your check-in point, so that your leave will be stopped.

From your check-in point, report to your command pass coordinator. When reporting to you CPC, you should have your stamped orders, service record (if still in custody of), receipts from your travel and your detaching endorsement FID (SH03). With your CPC's help you will fill out a new Servicemembers Group Life Insurance form, update your Page 2, fill out your travel claim – part of your travel claim will be for you to get your temporary lodging expenses. You can get 10 days paid lodging with receipts. Receipt must indicate a zero balance. The 10 days lodging must be between previous duty station and gaining duty station.

You will need to have permissive leave for house hunting approved prior to taking the leave. This can be accomplished through your command administrative office.

At your new command, you will get your base check-in sheet. Get your sponsor or someone from your command to help you find your way around the base. You will need a sponsor who can assist you with your needs. To ensure a sponsor is assigned, you may also contact your gaining command. For a listing of commands, see major unit listings. Don't forget to fill out your sponsor questionnaire sheet when you check in at your new command or at the Fleet and Family Support Center. Both Pass and ID Office and the CDO are located in Building 409 (Naval Air Station Administration) on Cedar Point Road.

Temporary Lodging Reservations

Once you check in at the Command Duty Office (administration building 409) or your command check-in point, you will be directed to check in at your reserved lodging location.  Present the front desk clerk with a copy of your orders and your reservation confirmation information. The front desk clerk will then assign you a room.

For PCS orders, if you are a single E-4 and below, report to bachelor quarters for billeting; E-5 and above must lodge at the Navy Lodge or Navy Gateway Inns & Suites until billeting is approved. Be sure to reserve lodging before arrival. For transient orders, the Navy Gateway Inn and Suites or Navy Lodge must be contacted first for lodging. If there is no availability for lodging at NGIS or the Navy Lodge, all members must get a certificate of non-availability from lodging authorizing them to stay off-base.

Geographical bachelors must put in a request for permanent geographical bachelor berthing to be decided by the Geographical Bachelor Board. Note: geographical bachelor space is extremely limited. 

If you get married before you complete your PCS, you must inform your commander and follow the procedures exactly as you are given them. The military will not pay for travel and housing of your spouse if you do not follow proper procedures.