Never ship your personal good in the military

**zjrog** · 9th September 10, 06:58 PM

I had my stuff shipped most transfers. And the only time I ever had any issues, I had stuff stolen from a shipment from Hawaii back to the mainland... And I was NICE to those guys...

**Whidbey78** · 9th September 10, 07:30 PM

I moved 4 times in the Navy, not counting RTC and NATTC Pensacola. Never lost any personal items and never had to wait more than six days for it to catch up with me. On the other hand I never had my personals shipped overseas.

This reminds me of an irony I had to deal with stateside and at Al Asad Iraq when deployed...we sent most of our aircraft parts to Saudi Arabia by FedEx or other courier and had it trucked to the airfield from there usually by the Army. The irony was that it took days to get it from Saudi to Iraq but Washington to Saudi took about 48 hours.

**Bill aka Mole** · 9th September 10, 08:37 PM

To one and all:
To my fellow retirees; thank you for your service.
To those on duty now; thank you for standing the watch.
To those who have had a family member or close friend die while on duty; my condolences on your loss.

Back in my day, we had to pack the mule ourselves and make it walk in the snow going up hill both ways while being monitored by a cavalry SGT!

**macshorty** · 9th September 10, 10:42 PM

When I returned from my tour of duty in Afghanistan, only two of the three boxes that I'd shipped had made it home before I did. The last one arrived two weeks later.

At least all of the contents inside were in the same condition I'd packed them in.

**SSgtKaniggit** · 9th September 10, 11:34 PM

yeah the stuff i shipped from afghanistan made it quite quickly... but it shouldnt take months to go from id. to ca. thats just utterly retarded! i will continue to sit and wait...