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Can you give me a dsn number that will allow me to call home to my wife because I can not find one that will allow me to make long distance calls and there is no base where my wife stays she lives in Detroit, MI I am currently deployed in Japan I just need a dsn number that will connect me to my family phone
Hi Jerry,
I'm afraid I can't, and here's why. DSN numbers are phone numbers which allows calls from one military base to another. Except in cases where one is deployed to a combat zone, they are for "offical use only." In other words, they can be used only for official military business.
In short, if you are assigned to, or TDY to Japan, you would not be allowed to use the military phone system to call home, under any regulation that I'm aware of.
Hope this helps!
Rod Powers
http://usmilitary.about.com
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Rod Powers is considered one of the premire experts about U.S. Military career information on the planet. He has more than 30,000 articles about U.S. Military career information on the About.com U.S. Military Careers Information website at: http://usmilitary.about.com. Additionally, he is the author of "ASVAB for Dummies," "ASVAB AFQT for Dummies," (available in Dec 2009), and "Veteran Benefits for Dummies," all published by Wiley Publishing. He is also the author of "Barrons' Guide to Officer Candidate School Tests," published by Barron's Educational Series.
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Rod Powers is a retired Air Force first sergeant, with 23 years of active duty service, 11 of those years as an Air Force First Sergeant. He has helped thousands of military members, recruits, and military applicants since he took over the About.com U.S Military Careers Information site in 1999. He has a reputation for "telling it like it is," so questions may not be answered based on "what you want to hear," but will be answered based of the bast available information, concerning the service/situation.
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Rod is a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Noncommissioned Officers Academy, the Air Force Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy, and the Air Force First Sergeant Academy. He also holds an Associates Degree in Personnel Administration from the Community College of the Air Force (CCAF).
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