JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas –
The Air Force organization that governs the shipment of active-duty members’ personal property when they move due to a permanent change of station or temporary duty assignment has a new home at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph.
Previously located in building 171 at JBSA-Lackland’s Kelly Annex, the Personal Property Activity Headquarters is now based in building 581 on E Street East at JBSA-Randolph, across Fifth Street East from the east flightline.
“We’re the single service manager and governing authority over joint personal property shipping offices and traffic management offices in the continental United States,” said Master Sgt. Cory Favors, PPA NCO in charge of command support staff. “Our mission is to provide a quality relocation experience for every customer.”
Favors said the PPA, which has a staff of nearly 40 active-duty members and civilians, provides guidance and instructive doctrines to the CONUS-based JPPSOs and TMOs.
“The three JPPSOs provide administrative oversight to the TMOs,” he said. “Among the TMOs’ responsibilities are back office shipment management, including booking and placing invoices; moving military members from point A to point B; and handling member household good shipments and personal travel expenses.”
Military members and their families have options when it comes to their shipments, Favors said. They can use a government-hired commercial contractor to pack and move their household goods or the personally procured move program, which allows them to move their personal property themselves by hiring their own carrier, using rental equipment or using their own vehicle.
“PPMs are pretty common because there are weight restrictions when the government hires a contractor,” he said. “Members keep their receipts and are reimbursed for their expenses. They can save money that way.”
The JPPSOs, which cover geographic regions, are based in San Antonio and Colorado Springs, Colo., and at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass.
In addition to its operational control of the South Central, North Central and Northeast JPPSOs, PPA HQ manages the Air Force’s Excess Cost and Adjudication Function, which reviews, processes and adjudicates personal property excess cost cases.