is compassionant reassignment considered to be a non deployable situation?

Question

my husband has been incarcerated since janurary 2007 i joined the army before he was incarcerated but left after they incarcerated him.well while in the army i find out that he can not leave the state he's in. im stationed in a whole nother state 20 hours away and.now when he's released he won't have anywhere to live at all .im the only one that can help take care of him so im trying to get dependency discharge but if possible a compassionant reassignment.but im being told i should just get the discharge because i may deploy and that may defeat the purpose of the compassionant reassignment being in the same state as my husband?do you have any clue about this?

Answer 1

1981 the Air Force would not reassign me so I could be with my wife for a similar reason.

Vet-USAF

Answer 2

CR do NOT keep you from being deployed, and in fact there is no reason under your request to do so.

in fact, CR may not even apply here, it is normally used when a family member is gravely ill, not incarcerated. as far as the military looks at it: a choice was made. He CHOOSES to stay in the state, even though you are stationed elsewhere. The Army doesn't care that he must stay there as a part of his probation.

I can almost promise that any request for a CR will be denied.. and frankly..it's possible your request for discharge will be as well. They will just say: you have accompanied Orders, he can live with you. They won't take into consideration the restrictions he is under.

It's the same for people who have child custody agreements that prevent them from leaving the current location even though they or their spouse has orders elsewhere. The Military doesn't care.. the SM goes where they are ordered, period. If the kids or the spouse don;t go for whatever reason, that's a choice they make and they must abide by the conditions resulting from that choice.

And here people say a spouses' actions never affect the servicemember...

Answer 3

Compassionate reassignments are usually reserved for an immediate family member with a medical condition never heard of it used for this type of situation.
I think once you can get him set up then you should still be deployable. It isn't like he is dying or anything. The best thing would be to talk to your Chain of Command and JAG and see what would be best.