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Have any teachers actually booked transportation to PCS this summer? We are hearing teachers can't PCS until travel restrictions are lifted...which hasn't happened yet.
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IsItFriday? @teacher42

Each situation had different guidance. A RAT is different from a PCS due to retirement, which is different from a PCS to an overseas duty station.

The DoDEA web pages have the updated guidance.
Jun 17, 2020
Ida Also, right now it depends where you are traveling from and traveling to. Green to green is allowed with out a waiver. If you look at the green list it is quite long surprisingly.
Jun 17, 2020
MsU Links? Trying to keep up but not finding what you are all referring to now.
Jun 17, 2020
Teach8311 DoD gave Japan the green light but it's up to each installation to release travel restrictions. As of today, no installation has released travel restrictions to begin PCS without the ETP or waiver. Yes, teachers are taking RAT, which is confusing since that's technically govt-funded travel, so shouldn't PCS be included? Our biggest worry is that tr...See More
Jun 17, 2020
haha RAT was interpreted to be covered by Exemption K in the Transition to Conditions-based Phased Approach to Coronavirus Disease 2019 Personnel Movement and Travel Restrictions memorandum dated 22 May 2020. It was very specific and did not include travel for new hires (and many other types of PCS moves).

'Exemption (k) allows "travel by civi...See More
Jun 17, 2020


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