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According to a new article published by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) is streamlining domestic and international military personal property transfers during the moving industry's 2011 busy season. The article, Command Streamlines Moves During Busy Season, which was posted on July 26th by the American Forces Press [...]

Before you start reading, fix your eyes on the red dot in the center of the image to the right. That's your assigned focus – your job for today!  The little speck in the middle of the light green circle. Look at it. Concentrate on its color, size and shape. Stare at it awhile before [...]

Readership has fallen off gradually during the last few weeks … just as expected!  Most regular industry subscribers (as well as many of the their corporate customers and HR hiring managers) are probably doing everything they can to keep their heads above water. They already know what kind of trouble they're in – they don't [...]

The quote to the right was pulled from an article that the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command's (SDDC) public affairs team published at the official web portal of the U.S. Army. Planning is the key if moving during peak moving season was posted just two weeks prior to what historically is the busiest, most [...]

Share your thoughts about the Defense Personal Property System’s new feedback forumUnless your company was fortunate enough to be represented at the American Moving and Storage Association's 2011 Education Expo held in Florida in March, or the Surface Deployment and Distribution Command's (SDDC) 2011 Training Symposium just completed in Texas, you probably don't have any [...]

Managing Expectations: SDDC’s challenge for relocating military service membersThe U.S. Air Force published a new piece at their official website entitled Realignments add to busy summer moving season.  The article addresses concerns about a “busier-than-usual military moving season” that is “about to kick into high gear”. Officials from the military Surface Deployment & Distribution Command [...]

Do you know what a “Program Efficiency Review” is? You should if you're one of the hundreds-of-thousands of moving and storage agents, independent owner-operators, or local third-party contractors whose small business interests or household family incomes are derived from providing some type of relocation product or packing and transportation service to the U.S. military. The [...]

Twitter used by DOD to communicate urgency of DP3 enrollmentJust a few hours after commenting in the RELO Roundtable forums on how the efficacy of the Defense Personal Property Program (DP3) rests on the timeliness and accuracy of the individual transfer orders being issued, the same message was being shared with relocating service members using [...]

Army Times casts dispersions among military personnelIn a new post entitled Army Times Criticizes DOD on Household Good Moves, the billing service experts over at Daycos raised some thoughtful questions about a recent editorial published in several online publications that are quite popular among active, reserve, guard and retired military personnel and their families.   [...]

The military fired a shot across the bow of the full service moving industry on Wednesday when John Johnson, Chief of the Surface Deployment & Distribution Command's (SDDC) Personal Property Branch warned that this year's peak moving season is expected to be even busier than usual. According to a report published by the Army News [...]