My husband and I want to join the Air Force together, can we live and do boot...

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nav.jugi

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...camp together? I am 21 and my husband is 22. We want to serve our country together in the Air Force. I wanted to know if we are going to be able to stay with each other during the six weeks of boot camp and for the coming years in the Air Force?
I am 21 and my husband is 22. We want to serve our country together in the Air Force. I wanted to know if we are going to be able to stay with each other during the eight weeks of boot camp and for the coming years in the Air Force?
 
During the 8 1/2 wks of basic you will be living apart and you will not have time to find each other and spend time together.

After that is tech school. If you are selected for the same exact job, then you would probably go to tech school together. But, even then, you would not be able to live together for at least the first month of that. Depending upon the length of tech school, maybe not at all. If you are in different careers.. you won't be seeing each other again.

Duty assignment... if you have the same exact career, they are going to try to find a way to separate you so that you are not working together. It doesn't make for a good work environment, nor a good marriage.
The AF does NOT guarantee that you will be based together. They will TRY, but there are no guarantees. I've seen lots of military couples based apart for 2 years at a time, due to the needs of the AF, and their jobs. Hubby's former boss... he did a year in Afghan, then came home. A month later she left for 6 months in Iraq. Both are leaving USAFE at the same time, but him to the Northwest, her to the Southwest. Due to needs... that was the closest they could get them! Another couple... spent 4 years living 5 hours apart.

Then you have deployments. Generally, they will not send couples on deployments together, so that is more time apart.

Don't get me wrong.. the AF is a great way of life. But it's not the easiest for mil-mil families.
 
Good luck my friend has no mother and now no father because the same reason, dont have a baby.
 
no, you cant stay with him during bootcamp! they put the guys and girls in seperate barracks. maybe during tech school you could be able to figure something out, but i doubt that you will be able to stay with him for that too.

EDIT: just recently they changed bootcamp from 6 weeks to 8 weeks. why dont you ask your recruiter all of this stuff. but i know you wont be able to stay together during bootcamp. bootcamp teaches disapline.
 
Nope women and men barracks separately. You might train with your male counter parts at times but mostly you will not even see a male up close. This is for basic training / your married so why wouldn't they try to keep you together, but the needs of the military always comes first.

Vet-USAF / Contractor In Iraq
 
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