Together. I was thinking about joining the Air Force but my husband is in the national guard. I was windering would that be hard to get station in the same location? Please help because i wont join if we cant be together in the same state.

If you are talking Active Duty and hubby is Guard, there should be an easy move. Your hubby can do an out of state transfer. If there is no guard units nearby, your hubby can try different avenues, such as electing to drop into the IRR and perhaps join the Reserve should there be a Reserve unit where there is not a Guard unit.

The following example is a bit backwards, but you should get the drift here.

Lets say you go active AF, you get stationed in Great Falls MT, but hubby is AF Reserve. There is no AF Reserve in Great Falls, but there is a Guard Unit. The Commander of the Reserve unit will more than likely understand and will not keep you two apart due to a part time opportunity and will allow for a transfer to the Guard so you can be together.

Or sometimes Army and Air Force can be stationed together (Ft. Bragg/Pope AFB, Ft. Dix/Maguire AFB, etc.) as many Army posts have AF bases attached or nearby. However, this is not always guaranteed.

Also, there is always the possibility of Navy and USCG (although I'm not an expert on that subject). Also the potential of Navy and USMC.

Good Luck!

Matt
SPC, US Army
15U

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Originally posted by goodthing:
Together. I was thinking about joining the Air Force but my husband is in the national guard. I was windering would that be hard to get station in the same location? Please help because i wont join if we cant be together in the same state.

Goodthing -- if your husband is in the Guard, then he isn't in a different service. In fact, the AF won't even consider him as being in the military, when it comes to your assignment. Because he isn't active duty, he will not even be in the equation for your assignment selection. He'll be seen in the same light as a dependent spouse.

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Also, there is always the possibility of Navy and USCG (although I'm not an expert on that subject). Also the potential of Navy and USMC.

Actually not many co-locations of Navy/Coast Guard units at all. A few of the major bases are near some Navy installations, but the majority of Coast Guard units are away from any major military bases. CPO Kalbach

I put in a prior service Marine who had a wife that was active duty Air Force. She was stationed at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City. After recruit training, his first assignment was the Coast Guard Institute in Oklahoma City. Now, that's not usually someplace you would go for a first assignment. Another woman I was stationed with at the 7th CG District Office in Miami married an active duty Army member. He was stationed in Hawaii, and she was transferred to the 14th CG District Office in Honolulu. She had only been in Miami a little over a year, and she was not tour complete.

I know there are no guarantees, but they do try.

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Originally posted by Retired_CG_Recruiter:
I know there are no guarantees, but they do try.

Not in Goodthing's situation they won't. AF personnel who are married to members of the Guard and/or Reserve are not eligible for Join Spouse assignment consideration (by the regs). So...the AF will place her on whatever assignment is appropriate (based upon AF needs) and then her dependent husband will be able to accompany her (if the assignment location allows it).

It doesn't always work for active duty folks. I was a E-4 in the AF and my wife was an Army nurse. We put in the request to be stationed close together and the Army sent her to Ft Bragg and the AF sent me to Goodfellow in Texas.

Then to top it off, I got sent to Japan. She only had to stay in for two years so we finally got together in Japan.

Sorry, I was citing some experiences I witnessed in the Coast Guard, as a follow up to Chief Kalbach's post.

The Coast Guard Personnel Manual just states that

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Coast Guard Assignment Officers will collocate Coast Guard members married to active duty members of other Armed Services whenever possible, assumining successful coordination with that Service.

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Originally posted by PO1Kalbach:

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Also, there is always the possibility of Navy and USCG (although I'm not an expert on that subject). Also the potential of Navy and USMC.

Actually not many co-locations of Navy/Coast Guard units at all. A few of the major bases are near some Navy installations, but the majority of Coast Guard units are away from any major military bases. CPO Kalbach

OK. I guess I was just thinking about seeing both Navy and USCG personnel at Ft. Eustis. Perhaps the USCG guys were Reserve Port Securitymen.

Matt
SPC, US Army
15U

While I was aboard the Cutter RELIANCE homeported at Training Center Yorktown, VA, the Coast Guard did quite a bit of training at Ft. Eustis. Students from Boatswain's Mate school were there every week for training in deck seamanship.

The Army ships (I think they were Corps of Engineer) there had all kinds of deck nomenclature that made for some good training.

Not to Hijack your thread but I'm in a simillar situation if you all could give me advice or honest opinion.
Me and my fiance are set up to join separate branches of the military, myself the air force and her in the marines. How do you guys think it would work? Would the services station us near eachother if we were married?
Or would they not at all care and send us where we are needed.

Seped -- as one who used to do assignments for the AF, here's three recommendations for you.

1) Both of you enlist in the same service.
2) Only one of you enter the military.
3) Both of you enlist, but in different services and be prepared to be separated your entire first enlistment. If you both reenlist after your first enlistment, plan on being separated longer.

The AF has a program known as the Join Spouse Assignment program. The objective of this program is to place special emphasis on attempting to reassign military couples (military-married-to-military) together as best as possible. If the both members are in the AF, it is far easier to reach this objective, although it's not 100% guaranteed. It really depends upon their jobs (AFSCs). If one or both possess AFSCs that are fairly common, getting assignments together is not difficult. However, I can tell you from personal experience that keeping an AF member and a Marine together will be difficult. First and foremost because there aren't a whole lot of AF members assigned to Marine bases and there aren't a whole lot of Marines assigned to AF bases.

With that said, this doesn't mean it's not impossible, but it will be very difficult. The Marines have their manpower requirements and will assign your fiance to fill their requirements. The AF will coordinate with the Marines and will try to assign y'all as close together as possible, but it may not be possible.

My advice to the two of you would be either join the same service, or don't get married...yet. If you take the latter advice, I'd wait a year or more after you've enlisted to see what you think about your respective services. If one of you knows the military (or at least that service) isn't for you and plan to separate), then you could go ahead and get married (if your feelings for each other haven't changed). Once married, apply for a Join Spouse assignment and let the AF/Marines work to get y'all together before one of you separates. That will at least save you a lot of $$$ in moving expenses.

Good luck.