With a VA loan — no down payment, no PMI — your monthly BAH can go toward a mortgage instead of a landlord's pocket. The median home near Twentynine Palms runs about $292,451.

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All Twentynine Palms BAH Rates by Pay Grade

Pay Grade	With Dependents	Without Dependents
Enlisted
E-1	$1,896	$1,755
E-2	$1,896	$1,755
E-3	$1,896	$1,755
E-4	$1,896	$1,755
E-5	$1,980	$1,782
E-6	$2,550	$1,914
E-7	$2,649	$1,986
E-8	$2,751	$2,097
E-9	$2,892	$2,265
Warrant Officer
W-1	$2,571	$1,929
W-2	$2,688	$2,094
W-3	$2,817	$2,286
W-4	$2,919	$2,571
W-5	$3,051	$2,670
Officer (Prior Enlisted)
O-1E (Prior Enlisted)	$2,664	$1,998
O-2E (Prior Enlisted)	$2,796	$2,229
O-3E (Prior Enlisted)	$2,940	$2,544
Officer
O-1	$2,052	$1,809
O-2	$2,544	$1,989
O-3	$2,814	$2,343
O-4	$3,090	$2,646
O-5	$3,291	$2,703
O-6	$3,318	$2,796
O-7	$3,342	$2,841

Official 2026 BAH rates for the TWENTY NINE PALMS MCB, CA Military Housing Area, effective January 1, 2026.

About Twentynine Palms

Stationed at Marine Corps Ground and Air Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, and looking for something to do on your next day off? Twentynine Palms is a pretty isolated desert community, so you might not think there are many off-base opportunities for fun. However, there’s more to do than you’d think! Below we’ll highlight some of our top recommendations, and we promise they’re not all “go hiking at Joshua Tree” (although we will be recommending some excursions in the National Park - it’s just too good to pass up).

Bearing in mind that Twentynine Palms is a relatively isolated community, we’ve tried to keep our recommendations to Twentynine Palms and the nearby communities of Joshua Tree and Yucca Valley, CA. However, there were a few great options in Palm Springs (about an hour away) that w...

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