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is it true?
Is it true that if your not of high enough rank in the Army, the Army won't move your family if your stationed overseas, in say Europe and may not even move them to another state? I don't mean deployment because I know family doesn't go for that.
DH will go in as an E3 or E4 and his cousin told him that today...I know my dad was Airforce but they moved our family. I'm so confused....I figured they'd try to keep the families together if possible.
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Re: is it true?
Sorry sweetie, but your DH's cousin is full of it! The military, across the board, will move families overseas or even to the next state over as long as that military person is going to be stationed for six months or more. My husband's only in his tech school but he's here for a year so I'm here too!
That is garbage, sorry. If your DH gets PCS orders, family goes with unless they are unaccompanied orders. Those are usually only to places like Korea, and rank has nothing to do with it.
You won't go with him to any temporary duty (TDY) but family always goes PCS (permanent change of station).
(and you have a PM back)
Ditto this. It has nothing to do with rank or length of tour. When DH pulled this assignment, he had the option to do it accompanied or unaccompanied. If he'd chosen unaccompanied, the tour would have been six months shorter, but the status of the tour is not directly linked to its length, if that makes sense.
A little update on Korea- Regardless of rank, you can come over with your spouse. HOWEVER, command sponsorship is on hold on the whole peninsula. When it opens back up, it will go by a priority system. Per the 8th Army Commander-
"Priority 1 includes key billets which are so vital to the mission we mandate Service members serve 24-month tours whether they bring their families or not. These positions are approved by higher headquarters and we have not made any modifications to Priority 1 billets. We established a Priority 2 category to improve mission readiness/ continuity. The number and specific type of positions are determined by unit commanders, approved by Component commanders, and vary by Service, location and unit. To further clarify, the Priority 2 category includes those military jobs from which commanders benefit the most by having personnel stay for 24- and 36-month tours, such as Service members in key leadership positions, those requiring lengthy pre- or post-arrival training or certification to perform their jobs in Korea, or low density/hard-to-fill skill sets. Commanders will fill remaining Priority 3 positions at their discretion, with the flexibility to consider factors such as recent deployments, dual military or single military families, those serving consecutive overseas tours, as well as junior Service member opportunities."
It all depends on Accompanied and Unaccompanied Tours.
And there are unaccompanied tours in Europe and Asia (on top of Korea). It costs the military more money to do this, so it is frown upon, but it happens.