Military counseling How can we get it???

Question

I am doing a survey for school that I would like to also share with my husbands commander in hopes that someday the Air Force will implement Counseling as a part of out processing!!! Please help me with my research to answer these few questions. If you are now or have ever been a military spouse Please HELP!!!

Methodology


1. What is your age?
a.18-25 b. 26-33 c.34-42 d. 42 and older

2. How long have you been married?

a.1-5 yrs b.6-10 c. 11-15 d. 16 or more

3. How many children do you have?
a. a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d.3 or

4. How long has your spouse been in the military?

a.1-5 yrs b.6-10 c. 11-15 d. 16 or more

5. Of all the years your spouse has served how many deployments has he been on?

a.1-2 b. 3-4 c.4-5 d. 6 or more

6. During deployments have you ever considered divorcing your spouse?
a. Yes b. No

7 Has the military offered your family counseling before/after your spouse
deployed?
a. Yes b. No c. N/A

8. Would you be receptive to counseling before making a decision about divorce?
a. Yes b. No C. I don’t think it would help

Answer 1

What type of Counseling are you asking about? Marrage, Financial, Relocating back into the Civilian world?

Give additional details to get your answer.

There's no service that will give you your orders for going PCS (Permanant Change of Station) or being Discharged and not provide ample briefings/counseling. In my years in the AF, Spouses were often invited and welcomed at Commander Calls. There is a good chance your spouse didn't tell you.

Also, with exiting the service, theres many briefings your spouse will need to attend as part of the out-processing. You are also welcomed at those meetings. Again, he probably hasn't informed you.
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I'm not sure. what type of answers will you be able to get from the questions you added? Hopefully there will be more indepth questions. It sounds like you want to see how many divorces are the results of deployments. If that's what your looking for, then your asking the wrong questions.

In my years with Red Horse - where we were deployed almost 50-75% of the time and that wasn't even in war time. Most divorces were not the result of the spouse being gone but the result of Financial issues or just plain incompatability with one another and a divorce was going to happen if the spouse went TDY or not.

You must really be kept in the dark. Don't you know or haven't you been told of the Spouse groups, especially when whole units are deployed? These groups get together and keep the spouses informed on everything that is happening and they provide support for the families while their husband or wife is deployed.

My girlfriend while in the AF, who is now my wife... She was also included in these unit meetings while I was deployed. The Services are aware of the hardships of deployments and they do have services to provide assistance, services that start right at the squadron level. You evidently haven't been informed.

Answer 2

dont know about the AF, but i call family assistance or my frg if we need something(family readiness group)

1. What is your age?
a.18-25 b. 26-33 c.34-42 d. 42 and older

B
2. How long have you been married?

a.1-5 yrs b.6-10 c. 11-15 d. 16 or more
B

3. How many children do you have?
a. a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d.3 or more
D


4. How long has your spouse been in the military?

a.1-5 yrs b.6-10 c. 11-15 d. 16 or more
12years

5. Of all the years your spouse has served how many deployments has he been on?

a.1-2 b. 3-4 c.4-5 d. 6 or more
5-6


6. During deployments have you ever considered divorcing your spouse?
a. Yes b. No
no
7 Has the military offered your family counseling before/after your spouse
deployed?
met him after during his last deployment
8. Would you be receptive to counseling before making a decision about divorce?
a. Yes b. No C. I don’t think it would help
not getting divorced

Answer 3

If you want to implement policy for the Air Force, I suggest you become an Airman first.

The only counseling the Air Force requires to my knowledge is when a disciplinary action is taking place, initial feed back, and mid term feed backs for your performance reports. Then if the ratee requires counseling from his supervisor, the supervisor has up to 30 days to give his Airman some feedback on his duty performance.

A good Commander and Supervisor will sit down with you prior to PCSing and give you some feed back on your performance within the unit.

There is no requirement for councelling to a Military Spouse. Your husband should be giving you all the information about the PCS. Its no different then if you got a DUI on post/base. Your husband is the one who has to explain it since you are his dependent.

Answer 4

counseling is already freely available( both in cost and accessibility). Military One Source is only one of many avenues military and their family members can pursue with regards to counseling.

it is the responsibility of the individuals to request such counseling if they feel it would be useful. it is NOT the job of the military to stick it's nose into private matters.

Answer 5

I don't know about the Airforce but the Army helps you to get ready to be a civilian again.

You might want to check out www.militaryonesource.com as well.