dumbrenter, As former military, I will tell you that the military usually waits to move people in the spring or December…yes, that has to do with kids school schedules. Often, they will move them early, but the wife stays behind to finish out school year. Too disruptive for kids to go to a new school for two or three months, but mid-year is not bad. We never moved anytime except early summer. We had orders by spring, usually moved out in June, had a month or two to move, and started leases in August. The only time we did not get spring orders was when my husband taught at the Topgun school…they run on no one’s schedule but their own.
