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MA A school & marriage
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Future navy wife
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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He just asks for a chit and fills it out about two weeks before you plan on arriving. The "specific" courthouse will be the one for the county his school is in, you can google that.
They will not give him any time off to get married, although he might be able to get some special liberty in an afternoon to go get the license.
Okay, I was in a dual military marriage. Once you swear in at MEPS and ship out, you are forever and always on YOUR orders, never his. Only dependents are "on" the orders.
If you are thinking about spouse co-location, you need to find the instruction, read it, and understand what it entails. I was looking for a link online, but they all seem to be broken. Ask your recruiter to see the instruction in writing, and have him go over it with you.
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Permalink Reply by Reana on
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Thank you! I also have some other questions. He went yesterday to go talk to someone about a marriage chit and they told him that because he is in MA school they won't grant him a marriage chit? And also because they are supposed to get their orders next week? He hasn't even been in San Antonio for a week yet. The guy said that he would have to wait until after MA A school and once he goes to his next duty station to get a marriage chit. Usually they grant leave after A school, during leave could we get married without a marriage chit? Or could he report to his next duty station, get the marriage chit and then go on leave?
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The chit is specific to each command. They are not supposed to refuse to sign them unless there is are problems. If he gets his orders next week, you are too late to be on the orders anyway. That is fast for orders, but not impossible. The guy he is asking is just being a dick. The Navy cannot forbid a legal marriage. In general, if a sailor generates a special request chit (they are all purpose forms), then it must be signed yes or no, with an explanation of why it is being denied.
Once he is on leave, he can just get married anytime he likes. No chit required. His next command won't care, although they might be annoyed they didn't know they were getting a married sailor and not a single one initially. Usually they can put the single guys straight into indoc and to work, while a married sailor requires time to get his dependent settled (may or may not grant house hunting time, and so on).
Your biggest worry would be overseas orders, as those frequently exclude dependents.
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So if we get married while he is on leave right after A school,and he gets stationed stateside, then I could move and live with him where he is stationed? Would he get BAH housing? If we get married while he is on leave right after
A school and his orders are over seas what happens since they exclude dependents? Can I not live with him? When would I be able to live with him on base? Sorry for all the questions, I'm just trying to figure out how all of this is going to work. We weren't expecting him to be getting orders a week after he got to A school. -
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If you marry on leave, you become his dependent. While you will pay for the move to his new duty station, there is nothing forbidding it. He would draw BAH and be able to live with you. All married sailors get BAH for their dependents, it is the law.
Some overseas commands do not allow dependents. There are not too many of those, so don't stress about it, just be aware it can happen. Orders to those places tend to be shorter.
The Navy does not authorize sailors who are E-3 or below to take dependents overseas even to the big bases such as Japan or Italy. He must be an E-4 for that. Even then, if the orders are issued as unaccompanied, without dependents, then he has to request a waiver. That can take months, because a dependent needs command sponsorship to live in a foreign country. Do not worry about that too much, it is one of those complicated situations with a lot of what ifs and exceptions. Again, do not stress over it, just understand it could be a reality. Right now, it is not your reality!
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