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This is an ideal hypothetical: husband and I enter Navy at the same time (Navy because they offer best student loan repayment + healthcare jobs). He is able to get a pharmacist job, I am able to get a healthcare administration job. Is it likely that we would be stationed together? Thanks!
USUALLY people are stationed together if married. It is RARE not to be. Sometimes the higher ranking officers are harder to station together because positions are fewer. The other thing that would be hard is if you were both doing a rare job. For example, if you did a job that could only be stationed at a couple bases, and his job could only be stationed at a couple bases, and those bases did not overlap. I've been in 12 years, and I've never met an enlisted person married to enlisted that was stationed apart for any length of time. I do have some friends now who are going to be apart for about a month because she had earlier orders than he did, but then he quickly got orders.
The hardest part of being a dual military family is if/when you have kids and you both get deployed or are on sea duty at the same time. Be prepared to sign papers stating who will raise your children in that situation. I got out of the navy for that reason. My husband continued on and retired from the USMC. Just make sure you look at the big picture not just the immediate issues.
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