Radio pulsars form a population with high velocities and velocity dispersions.
We present initial results from an astrometry program for a number of pulsars using the NRAO Very Long Baseline Array. Pulsar gating is used to boost the signal to noise ratio, and the observations are phase-referenced to preserve absolute positional information. One proven way to minimize this problem is to use an in-beam calibrator. For most targets, an in-beam calibrator is not readily available.