If my husband and I join the military together, can we be kept together through out our whole military carrer?

If we join together can be request to not be separated?If my husband and I join the military together, can we be kept together through out our whole military carrer?
If you join the AF you can... my husband and I go everywhere together, even our deployments. Our squadron works with us on whatever we want to do. We have been on two deployments together and the AF doesn't separate married couples, unless of couse you ask for it.If my husband and I join the military together, can we be kept together through out our whole military carrer?
Very very unlikely, since you are a female then you aren't allowed to


join a unit that is in combat. Your husband however could become a marine,which are the first people to be deployed, and be seperated from you while you stay doing your job at a different base. You might be able to request to be stationed at the same bases, honestly I don't think it will happen though. Also if you guys want to stay together then you have to pick the same branch of the military because if you choose to be an army technician and he is in the air force, then he will be sent to an air force base and you will be sent to an army base.


Hope this helps
There is an Army program that will help you get assigned together, but understand there is NO GUARANTEE you always will be assigned together. The Married Army Couples Program (MACP) is a program designed to help ensure Soldiers married to other Soldiers are considered for joint domicile assignments. MACP was established to help alleviate some of the problems by trying, WHEN POSSIBLE, to assign married couples at the same location. The goal of the program is to ensure that MACP Soldiers are considered for assignment together as often as possible. Again, no guarantee.





The Air Force makes similar reasonable attempts, but again no guarantee. I don't know about the other services.





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absolutely NOT. spousal co location is NEVER guaranteed. and that also means you can and will deploy on opposite schedules .





they try. the NEVER promise. in fact most of our Dual militray friends have spent at least half their careers separated. Japan and Germany, Monterey and Bremerton, ev n the two stationed in San Diego together were apart.. one command relieved the other on deployment so they went a year without seeing one another. .
My wife and I are both Active duty Army. Funny thing is, her name is Amanda Elizabeth and her Yahoo name is Mandabeth...lol





I can answer for the Army with personally experience and for the Air Force through my cousin who is Active duty Air Force as well as her husband.





You have a pretty good chance of being ablet to stay together for your whole career, depending on your MOS that you both choose. As long as you choose MOS's that are widely used job, like mechanic or something like that, then it increases. Overall, it is pretty easy in the Army for this to happen. The Army has the Married Army Couples Program (MACP) and the Air Force has thier equal to that.





It does not guarantee that you will for sure be assigned at the same place each time, but when one of you comes up for orders, they do see that both of you are married and are on active duty so they will contact the other's branch manager to see if there is a place that both can go. My wife and I have had the same assignments each time we have recieved orders. The only time that we weren't together was when we were deployed. We are in the same brigade, so we went at the same time, we were just at a different base than each other. If we were to be at the same base, we would have been able to actually live together.





To go a little further and answer you second question, YES you can request not to be seperated, but you can also request to be deployed at different times. This is mainly for couples that have a children or dependents at home and want to make sure that there is always at least one parent at home with the kids. But I am sure that you two are wanting to stay together, so you can make that request on your Army Knowledge Online in the Assignment Satisfation Key. They will also ask you about your preference when you are at the reception station when you attend basic training.





As for the Air Force, they have a programs sort of like the Army's. My cousing and her husband are both part of it and they both have gotten stationed together at the same base.





As for the other branches, I don't know. I figure that it wouldn't be too hard because there are only a couple or even a handful of places taht you can go, and usually each of those places have a big assortment of the jobs posted there.





Good luck and I hope it all works out for you
You can request it... if they can or want to, they will keep you together.





But if he's an MP or a combat MOS and you work in the medical field (for example), then you have a better chance of being separated.





But if you both are in similar MOS's, then it's more possible to stay together
Probably Not! The military puts you where they military needs you.





You can however enroll in the Married Army Couples Program, (if you guys go Army,) which whenever the senior person gets orders to move, they will see if they can slot you in the same base..





Don't hold your breath doll...
The military will take reasonable efforts to make sure that you are not ';separated'; but that does not imply a guarantee. Depending on the service(s) you join the military's efforts may be futile. They will not allow you to serve in the same command.
actually, yes. any recruiter worth his weight in s**t would be able to give you all the info you could need on this program. i cant remember the name but i know for a fact that it happens all the time. actually, its quite rare for this not to happen this way.
The services try to make that happen, it is not a guarantee that y'all be at the same posts all the time. If you are thinking of a long service, then y'all should be prepared to be apart for awhile.
no the chances are very unlikely because different units deploy at different times.