khall1195 said:
Not exactly free, the money still comes from the paycheck, it's just immediately taken away, we never see it...
I don't know how much your not getting money wise from staying in base quarters but when m ex and moved here we rented for 18 months prior to getting a available housing unit. The rent and utilities we paid for a one bedroom apartment in 1989 were about three hundred dollars a month more than the allowances he received as an E4.
When we finally got housing it was substandard and we got to keep a third of what used to be his BAQ becuase of that. We finally got Glenn Forrest after being here for two years. The amount of money we saved was significant.
I wouldthink that these allowances can not have increased that much over the last 16 years that it would be more profitable for you to secure your own housing obviously if it was you would have already done that. So it would be
unreasonable to expect the military to let you keep these allowances and provide you and your family with adequate living quarters.