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.

Information, Referral and Relocation Services is managed by knowledgeable and experienced staff here to provide support, information and assistance.

IR&R provides hospitality kits known as the Lending Locker.  These kits including silverware, pots and pans, coffee makers, toasters, dishes, glasses, cooking utensils, and irons and ironing boards.  All are loaned to incoming families awaiting their Distribution Management Office (DMO) shipments as well as outgoing families who have shipped their household goods to their next tour of duty station.

You can forward your mail to your new command until you get a permanent mailing address, or you can obtain a P.O. Box at the MCAGCC Twentynine Palms’ Post Office, building 1435. Fill-out an application at your local post office, Form 1093, and include fees to cover six months.  Your mail will then be forwarded to the Twentynine Palms branch. Don't forget to send-out change of address forms. Please verify the current cost of a P.O. Box in Twentynine Palms by calling 760-368-3213.

IR&R is here to answer your questions and ensure that the transition for every member of your family is a smooth one. We know all too well that your move affects your children, and we can also help them. Just stop by and ask.  Call IR&R to chat with a relocation specialist at 760-830-6344 who can answer your questions and provide insight and helpful guidance regarding your permanent change of station to or from Twentynine Palms, California.