I am a army soldier and my wife wants to join will she be able to get stationed with me?

Question

My wife has been thinking of joining the military but we have two children and we were wondering if anyone out there knows if she will be able to get a choice of duty station

Answer 1

the army has a special program (forgive me i forgot the name) where soldiers can get stationed together to keep the family together, of course like anything with the army, nothing is certain but they do try very hard to accomodate. others have posted that you will not be deployed at the same time because of the children, but that is not always the case. depending on the necessity of your MOS's if you are both needed you will both go, thats why POA's are issued with directives for dependants. good luck to you both!

Answer 2

Depending on where you are, your wife can select duty station of choice to be assigned with you. In the event that fails the army will try to make sure that the next change of station moves you two together. It will be dependent upon what job she is looking at taking. If your base is small, and she takes something like vet tech, there might not be a position for her job on the post.

Answer 3

At first she will not be able to be stationed with you. What she will have to do is a hardship tour of duty first, that means away from her family members and away from home. Then she may be able to choose where she wants to go and be stationed with you, many families do that. And if the post has need for her mos then she can go there. It will be tough on both the kids and you. She will have to go through basic training and AIT before she can be stationed anywhere and that is seperation there as well. Good luck with everything.

Answer 4

While there is no guarantee, and you guys can't serve in the same command, the military usually tries to situate spouses close by.

My wife and I were both in the Navy, and got married. They took her off of the ship, and put her shore duty with the base command.

Answer 5

There is a decent chance but it is NOT guaranteed. I was married to a military girl we were always together but in Korea only by her being allowed to change camps with someone else. We had friends that were at different camps over there and while at FT Bragg (twice) we had friends whose spouses were stationed in Virginia.

Answer 6

It depends on your mos's and if its possible for the 2 of you to be stationed at the same duty station, but they will try their best to accommodate for you, nothing is guaranteed though.

Answer 7

The military does try very hard to accommodate married couples by stationing them at the same base.

Answer 8

they have to station married couples together but say if her mos takes priority over yours you may be following her around the world

i wanted to join the army too my husband is a solider but he stoped me because if of it would be just too much on our marriage with deployments and all and we do not have any children so that means we could both be deployed at the same time at diffrent post and it would drive us both insane you as a solider know the high demand of the job seriously weight out the options before she signs up it is hard to be married to just one solider but for soliders to be married has to be even harder

my husband believs in me and knows i can do anyting i want too but that is one of the few job moves that he stoped me from doing and im really glad he did.

Answer 9

Like they said, Army does try to take your marriage into consideration. If they don't place you together, they try to keep you within a certain amount of mileage.

Answer 10

with children, she will not be able to enlist Active Duty, Only Reserves.