Posted on May 31, 2018
Once my boyfriend and I join the Army (AD for him, USAR for me), what are the chances that we will get stationed together?
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my boyfriend and i are both joining the army in the next few months, him as active duty and myself as a reservist. he is joining before me and i am planning on joining a month after he gets back from his training. we are planning on getting married once i finish my job training. what are our chances of getting stationed together and can i ask to be stationed at whatever base he gets stationed at if i am living with him?
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Here is how the Reserves work. When you join, you will be slotted in a unit that is going to be close to your home as possible (depending on the job you pick). The tricky part for you two, is that once he gets stationed somewhere, you are going to have to search high and low for a unit with your MOS that is as close to him as possible, contact that unit and see if they have an available slot with your MOS. Now, if a unit cannot be found nearest you, then what one of your options would be is to be willing to travel (driving or flying) as much as across the country to meet your Reserve Weekend obligations. And that is if he gets an assignment in the US first
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Or you could ask your unit to let you drill with a closer unit called drill in place, or ask then to let you do quarterly or semi-annual make ups where you do 6 or 12 days at a time to make up for missed drill days.
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SGT Robert Johnson school or locality. I've seen it happen a bunch when I was a part of the MIRC. Soldiers would do like a one week or two week drill and they would get everything taken care of. It's usually because of school, but I've also seen it because of work schedules.
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SGT Robert Johnson well their MOS is hard to retain, and the command hardly ever need quota, so, it was to their benefit.
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I was married to another Navy Officer. When we were dating, no one cared about trying to get us orders close together. In the eyes of the service, "dating doesn't matter." Once we were married, they tried very hard to get us stationed together (which they did). Not sure how the guard does things, but I wouldn't imaging that it would be much different. The key we found, was talking to our detailers and making sure they were all on the same page. Get in touch early and often, rather than later. Give them time to work things out. Best of luck.
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Your chances are about as good as Hillary Clinton ever becoming President of the United States. An easier COA would be for you (if you are prepared) get married, both join Active Duty, enroll in the Dual Military Program, then get stationed together. Once all the stars align for you the Army will send one of you on an unaccompanied 1year long deployment. HRC has a dark sense of humor.
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MAJ (Join to see)
In the reserves you pick your unit, so it is highly likely that once they get married she'd just fill out a transfer document and move to the new location and work for a different reserve unit in that location.
There are reserve units in every location imaginable, if this were the guard the story would be different but the reserves is very flexible when you need to relocate.
There are reserve units in every location imaginable, if this were the guard the story would be different but the reserves is very flexible when you need to relocate.
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MAJ Bryan Zeski
LTC (Join to see) So true. And when the one gets back, the other will get the same deal. 20 years of marriage is easy when you never see each other!
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MAJ Bryan Zeski - The reserves is different as you the Soldier control your duty location, not the big Army, she can move wherever she likes, unit commander's can't stop a transfer order when the Soldier took a job or relocated outside the commuting distance and joins a new unit.
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