One of the primary factors to consider when contemplating a military-couple marriage is if both members are in the same service. Obviously, it's easier for the services to assign couples together when both are in the same branch. For one thing, it takes less coordination, as only one branch assignment division is involved. Also, remember that I said the services will not create a job-slot just to assign couples together? Well, there just ain't that many Air Force airmen assigned to Marine Corps bases, nor many Marines assigned to Air Force Bases. Additionally, there aren't that many Air Force bases and Marine Corps bases that are close together. So, marrying someone in your same branch of service obviously increases your chance of a successful JOIN SPOUSE assignment.
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I am in the army. If my wife joins a different branch service is there a way to
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be stationed where she goes? I am in the army. My wife is considering joining a different branch. If she decides to than can I go where she gets stationed or how does that work. I know the army has the married army couples program but is there a way between different branches?
I have known about 15 couples that divorced because they were in the situation you described. The different services wouldn't give up a trained person to another branch, and the other branch couldn't make up a job for the spouse.
It's a bad idea. There are very few places that are multi-service, and even if you and your wife landed orders to a place like that (the pentagon for example) you would only be staying for 2 or 3 years. Don't forget that the MOSs have to match up too. Even if there was a possibility to always move the two of you together there are not a lot of jobs (except maybe admin/clerical) that would find themselves in the same place. A Navy gas turbine tech won't be able to get stationed at an Army post, there aren't any ships' turbines to work on there.
It's a bad idea. There are very few places that are multi-service, and even if you and your wife landed orders to a place like that (the pentagon for example) you would only be staying for 2 or 3 years. Don't forget that the MOSs have to match up too. Even if there was a possibility to always move the two of you together there are not a lot of jobs (except maybe admin/clerical) that would find themselves in the same place. A Navy gas turbine tech won't be able to get stationed at an Army post, there aren't any ships' turbines to work on there.
I personally think that's a bad idea if she decides to join another branch outside of Army. At one point I was married "mil-to mil" but my husband and I were both active duty in the Air Force so it was very easy for us. The only downside was I got orders to go to Hill AFB (Salt Lake City, UT *my second choice on my dream sheet) and as soon as I filed for joint spouse (so my husband could follow me) we couldn't go to Hill AFB and we ended up getting orders to Cannon AFB (Clovis, NM) a town with a population of 30K people and like over 100K cows. So yeah...it sucked and the air smelled like cow sh*t all day/night long.
I personally think that's a bad idea if she decides to join another branch outside of Army. At one point I was married "mil-to mil" but my husband and I were both active duty in the Air Force so it was very easy for us. The only downside was I got orders to go to Hill AFB (Salt Lake City, UT *my second choice on my dream sheet) and as soon as I filed for joint spouse (so my husband could follow me) we couldn't go to Hill AFB and we ended up getting orders to Cannon AFB (Clovis, NM) a town with a population of 30K people and like over 100K cows. So yeah...it sucked and the air smelled like cow sh*t all day/night long.
I have known about 15 couples that divorced because they were in the situation you described. The different services wouldn't give up a trained person to another branch, and the other branch couldn't make up a job for the spouse.
It's a bad idea. There are very few places that are multi-service, and even if you and your wife landed orders to a place like that (the pentagon for example) you would only be staying for 2 or 3 years. Don't forget that the MOSs have to match up too. Even if there was a possibility to always move the two of you together there are not a lot of jobs (except maybe admin/clerical) that would find themselves in the same place. A Navy gas turbine tech won't be able to get stationed at an Army post, there aren't any ships' turbines to work on there.
It's a bad idea. There are very few places that are multi-service, and even if you and your wife landed orders to a place like that (the pentagon for example) you would only be staying for 2 or 3 years. Don't forget that the MOSs have to match up too. Even if there was a possibility to always move the two of you together there are not a lot of jobs (except maybe admin/clerical) that would find themselves in the same place. A Navy gas turbine tech won't be able to get stationed at an Army post, there aren't any ships' turbines to work on there.
I personally think that's a bad idea if she decides to join another branch outside of Army. At one point I was married "mil-to mil" but my husband and I were both active duty in the Air Force so it was very easy for us. The only downside was I got orders to go to Hill AFB (Salt Lake City, UT *my second choice on my dream sheet) and as soon as I filed for joint spouse (so my husband could follow me) we couldn't go to Hill AFB and we ended up getting orders to Cannon AFB (Clovis, NM) a town with a population of 30K people and like over 100K cows. So yeah...it sucked and the air smelled like cow sh*t all day/night long.
I have known about 15 couples that divorced because they were in the situation you described. The different services wouldn't give up a trained person to another branch, and the other branch couldn't make up a job for the spouse.
It's a bad idea. There are very few places that are multi-service, and even if you and your wife landed orders to a place like that (the pentagon for example) you would only be staying for 2 or 3 years. Don't forget that the MOSs have to match up too. Even if there was a possibility to always move the two of you together there are not a lot of jobs (except maybe admin/clerical) that would find themselves in the same place. A Navy gas turbine tech won't be able to get stationed at an Army post, there aren't any ships' turbines to work on there.
It's a bad idea. There are very few places that are multi-service, and even if you and your wife landed orders to a place like that (the pentagon for example) you would only be staying for 2 or 3 years. Don't forget that the MOSs have to match up too. Even if there was a possibility to always move the two of you together there are not a lot of jobs (except maybe admin/clerical) that would find themselves in the same place. A Navy gas turbine tech won't be able to get stationed at an Army post, there aren't any ships' turbines to work on there.