The first step to a move is getting issued orders. This is the official paperwork that states where you are moving, when you are moving, and to what unit your spouse will belong. This single piece of paper is the God of a PCS. Without it you can't do anything.
The beauty and the curse of Orders are this. Once you have them, the move is on its way and the wait to know where you will be living is over. You can start exploring the town that will become home for a few years. You can start making appointments for moving companies. You can break it to the kids. You can announce it on Facebook! You can do it all.
The curse is the couple of months before Orders are issued. You see, the rumblings of a pending move are hard to ignore. There are emails and forms that the military member has to fill out. The Air Force loves their paperwork. So for a couple of months you know you are moving. But you do not know exactly when. And in nearly every military move, you do not know where you are going. So until orders are actually in hand, you can't get anything done.
That is where we are currently at. My husband has filled out all the paperwork and has even been contacted by the folks in charge of issuing his orders. We are to expect them in the next couple of weeks. We are fortunate enough to know where we are headed this time around, so at least we have been saved from that little bit of worried suspense. Even so, the waiting can be hard.
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