As of 1 Mar 2008 Kadena AB in no longer weight restricted for Air Force Accompanied personnel and DoD civilians. Acommpanied Air Force members having their household goods picked on or after 1 Mar 2008 can now ship
their full Joint Federal Travel Regulations/Joint Travel Regulations (JFTR/JTR) weight allowance in/out of Kadena AB.
If you are sponsoring an accompanied member to Kadena AB, please advise the member that the size of housing is smaller than most stateside locations. Also, housing provides basic appliances such as washers, dryers and refrigerators, please do not ship these appliances. Additionally, we highly recommend members do not ship oversize furniture items (i.e., king size
beds, large entertainment centers, etc.). Once you ship your personal property to Kadena AB, TMF is not authorized to reship excess property back to CONUS for storage per JFTR/JTR. Also, commercial storage facilities are limited here in Okinawa, expensive and at member’s expense.
For all unaccompanied members, you will remain weight restricted to unaccompanied baggage only, normally 500 lbs by air or 700 lbs by surface. 10% of JFTR maybe authorized, depending upon where you reside…dormitory or local economy.
Contact the Traffic Management Flight for details, 634-7857/7862.
******PLEASE NOTE: One of our readers (Crider family) commented on their recent PCS regarding this weight allowance change (comments below) and on how it affected them. You only get “loaner” furniture while you are awaiting HHG shipment. Once this shipment arrives, your loaner stuff goes bye bye, so BRING WHAT YOU WANT TO HAVE IN YOUR HOUSE! See comments below for more details.
I am coming to Camp Foster in August. Will I have my full weight or is it restricted? Thank you.
We did not realize with the full JTR allowance that we would not be authorized the “borrow” furniture to replace the items that we did not bring. We were informed by our TMO office at our loosing base that we should still bring limited items as they would be provided still when we arrived in okinawa and space here was limited. WELL…not true!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you are authorized to bring your full household goods then you better bring your furniture! They will only loan you furniture for 90 days and then they take the loaner furniture back. We ended up having to purchase bedroom furniture and other items, when we have perfectly acceptable stuff in storage in the states. However, once it is in storage you can only get it released from storage if you take the entire shipment. Make sure you bring bedroom furniture, living room furniture and anything else you need to make your stay comfortable or you will have to purchase furniture as well once you arive. It was a very costly miscomunication and the tmo office/housing office here was unwilling to bend on their rules to help accomidate us. I hope this posting helps some of you from having the same thing happen. Several families that came here the same time as us from differnet bases were misinformed as well and also had to purchase furniture.
Someone PCSing to Okinawa wants to know if bicycles can be sent with unaccompanied baggage or only in household goods. Do you if there is an official site with a detailed list of what is authorized?
We will be coming this fall and Have not gone to transportation yet but does this mean for all moving to kadena or just fro air orce. we are army not air force.
Just a note for those AF personnel PSCing to Okinawa with full weight allowance, don’t bring your washer and dryer. We were not told this so we, logically, had ours shipped. Well each house has it’s own assigned washer and dryer. So we tried to either get the furniture people to come pick it up or we take it somewhere, there is NO place for them to go!!!! So we have 2 washers and 2 dryers (only one set is hooked up). Unfortunately, they take up a tremendous amount of space. So for the next 3 years, if our washer and dryer break, we have extras a few feet away.
Does anyone know if the weight restiction is going to be lifted for the Marines? If so is there a date of when? We are going to be there in June. I would think the soonest we would pack up is April-ish, if we sell our house.
I’m PCS’ing to Torii Station in a few months. I’m an E-5 in the Army. Are there shipment restrictions?
I will be moving there as of June 21st with my husband. This webisite was informative in regards to furniture but what about bringing over an american made car? I have a chevy colbalt with 50 thousand miles on it and am not sure if it can be stored in the states or if I am able to take the car??