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.

Army Community Service welcomes you to the United States Army Garrison Bavaria, Tower and Rose Barracks.

We would like to invite you to our Newcomers Orientations, Hallo USAG Bavaria and German as a Second Language classes to make the transition as smooth as possible. Join us and make new friends while learning about the area and picking up some survival German culture, customs and language skills. Orientations ease the transition and introduce participants to the German culture, language, military life in U.S. Army Europe and answer any questions pertaining to the local area. Stop in at our office at Tower Barracks (Grafenwoehr), Building 244, or Rose Barracks (Vilseck), Building 322, to find out which of the many programs is for you.

The ACS Relocation Readiness Program offers a variety of services to aid Soldiers and families in the process of transition. Welcome packets are available for in-office viewing on virtually every Department of Defense installation in the world. The information provided shows an overview on your next duty station, living accommodations, facility programs and cultural highlights that will ease your transition.

The Lending Closet offers a variety of basic household items such as cookware, dinnerware, pots and pans, dishes, silverware and small electric appliances, including microwaves, toasters and coffeemakers. Generally, towels and bed linens are not available, so these should be packed in your hold baggage.  Lending Closet services by Appointment only !

All separating and retiring military personnel are required by law to attend a pre-separation briefing presented by the Transition Assistance Program. Separating Soldiers and their spouses may attend once they are within one year of separation. In addition, we provide transition assistance such as career guidance, counseling, instruction on job-search techniques and resume preparation.

For more information or to answer some of your relocation questions, contact your ACS.