I worked with a guy who left east coast and came to Germany. He stored (at AF expense) over 10k pounds of household stuff. No issues. At the end of three years...he was offered another assignment (totally separate deal) for four years, which was on the same base, and he accepted. So he comes to the end of seven years on this base and is calling up this storage company. At the end of the first assignment, he was supposed to call up the company and give them another copy of his orders, or deliver to assets somewhere. He hadn’t done this. So they had sold off everything. He tried to get compensated by the Air Force for this...but they told him that it was part of his process for the second orders, that he was personally responsible for, so they paid nothing.
Yes
while we were in Okinawa the oppotunity to be stationed next in Hawaii occurred (Hickam)
We would have had to do new paperwork for our stored stuff if we had gone to Hawaii (another overseas assignment) instead of returning to the US mainland at the original expected time...
That was standard proceedure...
you secured your stored belongings..