Can anyone tell me about the Army Couples Program?

The Army MACP is designed to station you in close proximity to one another, however It does not guarantee that you will be stationed together. As an officer it can sometimes be difficult to be stationed together depending on the assignments available and the officer timeline. From personal experience I had to take two separate one year tours without my family due to a lack of assignments where my husband was stationed. It does nothing if you have children, that's what the family care plan is for. Meaning if you are both in the same unit and both get orders to deploy, you both go and your kids go to your care giver. To apply you both will need to submit 4187s through your command, once you are commissioned and married. Once approved it will go to HRC with a remark saying you are enrolled in the MACP. After that theoretically they should try so move you together.



https://www.hrc.army.mil/EPMD/Married%20Army%20Couples%20Program

The main goal of it is to station you both together or within 250 miles. Unless you get deployed. Also if you have kids it makes sure you both will not deploy at the same time. If your more than 250 miles apart they try to keep it under 6 months for the most part. Some cases it's different in higher up ranks. I know my brigade commanders husband is a division commander so they are over the 250 miles apart but they had to accept it before they got orders so it's meant to help you out as much as possible

To my understanding the Army married couples program tries to ensure that you and your spouse are stationed together in most cases they are able to make that happen. Your S1 should be able to give you proper documentation