I was just wondering about everyones opinion on what bank they suggest useing and what bank to avoid.....

We already had USAA when we moved here and it's great! We use the debit card for everything, almost. I rarely use checks anymore. You can deposit any odd checks you get from people online through the "Direct Deposit at Home. you have to have a scanner on your computer/printer. you can get money from the Community Bank ATMs on base, even Yen. The small service charge is reimbursed to you. If you use the Navy Fed ATMs you get charge $2 each time. You might get some of that back but once we learned that Com. Bank didn't charge like that, that's the only one we go to. I also set up a Community Bank account because I work at a Japanese school (have a Japanese bank account for that). So, I can go get Yen from my Mitsubishi Bank account then take it to Com. Bank and get it changed to US then deposit it there to be used for different things or I can transfer it electronically to USAA. Hope this helps!

that helps a lot thank you!!!!!!!!

We use USAA for everything and love it. My husband's been with them since 1997 and is very happy with them. We use the USAA ATM/Debit card at the Community Bank ATMs to withdraw dollars and yen.

Like Polly, we also deposit checks by scanning them and have been doing that for a couple of years.

There's a Navy Federal on the base but I've only been in there two times in the 19 months we've been here.

Navy Federal is horrible~We lived in Biloxi when Hurricane Katrina hit....with all that was going on(miscarriage, loss of two cars and about $20,000 worth of house stuff) we simply forgot to pay the credit card bill...I drove to pensacola to visit family and they had froze out account...would not unfreeze it even though I explained the situation. I despise NFCU....USAA rocks....they paid off both our cars which was more than kelly blue book and we got about $20,000 for rental insurance....They are fast when it comes to claims and customer service is far above NFCU
Once we pay off their card, that account will be closed...you can't go wrong with USAA...

My husband and I both use Bank of America but we also have an account at Community Bank in Yokosuka, it is a branch off of Bank of America.  We have had no problems with it at all.

I'm with NFCU and I've never had any problems with them. I never go into the branch because it's always crowded. I do most of my banking online or thru a NFCU ATM.