Marriage, military and nursing

[teletech111]

SO I have a quickie quesiton that i havent come across while reading through some of these threads. Lets assume that I am married, bsn, rn, and my spouse is likewise. Let us also assume that we both want to join the same branch of the military and just for the sake of argument we have exactly the same credentials, grades, acceptance into (unspecified branch). Do you get deployed together? stationed together? to what extent do you stay together and is it based on military in general or branch specific? thanks!

P.S. the current threads on branch and general military nursing questions have been an outstanding resource over the past hour or so of perusing!

[SoldierNurse22, BSN, RN]

With those creds, you should both be accepted into the Nurse Corps, not "unspecified branch".

I know the Army has a married couples program where they try to station married dual mil within 50 miles of each other. Most couples get stationed at the same location, especially when their AOC (jobs) are the same. I believe Navy and AF have similar programs.

As far as deployments, you go where the needs of the military send you, as would she. More often than not, most couples aren't deployed together. There need to be degrees of separation between family members/married couples in the military, especially in volatile situations like deployments.

Let me further elaborate on the difficulties of entering the military as a RN in any branch right now, the sequester, the drawdown and the fact that you will both need experience to apply and usually specialty experience to be competitive (ER, ICU are popular options).