Married OR Single: Which has more advantages?

<P>Marriage to the right person, can't be beat.&nbsp; When you PCS, you already have your first friend.&nbsp; You always have someone who will listen to you.&nbsp; When you are deployed...well leaving sucks, but when you get back, when the single Soldiers are going back to the barracks and making their beds, you are going HOME with the one that waited for you and took care of the kids, dogs, cats,...things while you were gone.&nbsp; It also forces the Soldier to think of otherr things besides the Military.&nbsp; Holy Cow First Sergeant, you want your&nbsp;Soldiers to think of other things besides the Military...ABSOLUTELY!&nbsp; Think of other people whose lives and existence depend on their decsions.&nbsp; </P>
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<P>Marrieage to the wrong person...DX them and go to CIF for another one :)</P>

I like being married.  My wife is my number one battle buddy.  When I was single and in the barracks, I was depressed because I hated the barracks; I didn't have anyone to come home too and details just to have details would be passed out to the single soldiers before the married ones.  Also, being in the barracks as a single NCO brought to much temptation for Lord knows what.

Single!!!!!

Barracks cleaning parties every Monday evening, CSM /1SG walkthrough every Tuesday morning. “Hey you” duties just for hanging around the dayroom on weekends to go wax and polish the platoon SGTs Office. After final formation married SM’s head home to relax while those living in barracks never get a break...

In recent years we built a little more fairness into the process, but when I was lower enlisted the NCO’s would just grab anyone at anytime - why plan anything when you have a captive workforce, guys use to get up first thing in the morning just to get out of the firing range.

This is a powder keg waiting to go off!  Pay is higher when married due to extra benefits...but bills are higher because spouse likes to spend money also.  Less responsibility for deployments etc when single (can pack up and go without much thought), however less support from family (no spouse/kids) so maybe less mail at mail call....  There are risks and benefits of both. 

For the love of god, SINGLE... My wife is my true match and I would not give her up for anything with the exception of my son but I sometime daydream about being in Iraq and Afghanistan so I won't her bur complain about easy things she can do herself.

Married is the way to go, dual military even better. I love coming home to someone who knows and understands what my day was like. I don't have to explain why I can't just come home or why I have to work past normal working hours. It does have its con's though, working hours are different so finding time for each other can be hard. I will go days without seeing my spouse while neither of us are deployed. It can suck. But I'd rather have someone understand why I can't spend time with them, then have someone mad at me and not understand that I can't do anything about it.

As mostly everyone has said, there are pros and cons, similar to smokers vs non smokers in the military.

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Both have it's pros & cons.
I enjoyed my time when I was single but I love that my husband doesn't kill me in my sleep when I get a little crazy :)