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Getting Married.. Dual Navy .. Advice PLease
So My Husband To Be In Feb Has Left For San Diego :( I'm Still IN Great Lakes For School Until Mid Feb - Early March. We Are Getting Married On The 2nd And Want To Know is:::
1) What Is Our Likely Hood Of Getting Stationed Together?
2) Will We Both Receive BAH If We Do Get Stationed Together?
3) How Long Does It Take For BAH TO Kick IN?
*** Sidenote: He Has Two Little Blessings But They Stay With Their Mother In Texas..... For Now
THANK YOU :)
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Permalink Reply by sailorwifenmom on
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Spouse colocation is actually very rare for your first enlistment, and not a sure thing after that. Also, depending on rate and rank, they tend to not let spouses be assigned to the same UIC because they can't have one of you possibly in a supervisory position over the other. What they will do, when they colocate spouses, is, say, one of you will be on one ship, and the other will be on a different ship or on shore duty.
As far as BAH for dual military, if you are married no children, you both get BAH at the no dependents rate. If you do have children, then one of you will get it at the with dependents rate and one will get the single rate. In your situation, where he has children, I'm assuming he pays child support and is probably already getting at least BAH differential, so what will likely happen once you are married and not living in the barracks is he will get it with dependents (or will continue to) and you will get the single rate. If you are geo bachelor's and are living in the barracks (especially at a school command) then this gets a bit more complicated, and you will need to talk to PSD about your specific situation and details.
Once all the paperwork is turned in / in order, you should get your BAH pretty quickly (assuming there aren't any complications).
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I don't know if this will apply to your situation or not but you will both have to be stationed on a ship to get dual BAH.
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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That isn't true, they can both be shore duty, or one on shore duty, and still pull BAH for each.
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Yes it is true. I just went through this in san diego back in the summer. Cbh denied it and my command fought for me and had to get a waiver from an admiral. The navy considers sea duty as stationed on a ship not a squadron or anyother deploys ke unit. E4 under 4 are not entitled to bah unless you have dependents and they won't approve it in san diego. Thankfully after 4 months it worked itself out and I also made e5 and my husband has been an e5.
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When because I just dealt with this from July till November 2012. So if they have changed it would have been within the past month. Both have to be sea duty stationed on a ship to receive dual BAH if both are under E5 or don't have dependents. And there is only one person who can approve it for all of Naval Station San Diego at CBH and he knows the rules.
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Yes it has only changed in the last few months, do you read message traffic? If not I suggest you start
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I didn't re-enlist after nine years because it was simply too difficult to get stationed near each other as we were both ET1. We'd already been apart, managed to get co-location for a mere year, then would have had the Pacific Ocean between us for two more years. Could not make it work.
Being the same rate makes it worse as you advance.
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Or in different communities. Like my husband is an airdale doing back to back deployments. I'm on a ship and got back with him in March from deployment. I'm definitely not re-enlisting and being co-located is one reason why.
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Ok...going to teach you a few things here (and some people might not like this, sorry).
1) there is an instruction for EVERYTHING in the Navy! LOOK IT UP or ask where to find it! That being said the instruction you are looking for regarding the spouse co-lo is http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/reference/milpersman/1000/130... (read it!)
2) again there is an instruction for this also http://militarypay.defense.gov/pay/bah/index.html Start there and see if you can find it, if not email me and I will help you out...BUT you need to tell me where you looked first :)
3) What is the Navy's moto?? You should have learned this is bootcamp..hurry up and wait...it could take a few months to kick in.
Now all that being said...what school are you in? AFTER you get married.. You need to go talk to your CPC and ask them to make you an appt with the CCC (Command Career Counselor) There is one in 236, 621, and Bldg 3 (odds are you won't be seeing on in bldg 3, as you and I both know that is where the CO works)(( getting confused yet how I know all this?, wait and I will explain) after the CPC makes an appt with you to see the CCC (fyi they wear the badge I have in my picture), you need to make sure you have your husbands full SS#, copy of marriage cert, and his orders. You are going to ask the CCC if you can put in a spouse co-lo chit to be stationed with your husband. You are asking as they know the people who plan this out and YES the instruction says NO you can not do it, BUT they deal with this daily and some of the people who give the orders out do allow it to happen.
NOW all that being said...if you already have orders (verbal or otherwise) you can NOT even try to get spouse co-loed with him (read the instruction it is in there).
all of that being said..you and your soon to be husband need to ask these questions at the commands NOT on a website that is not designed for Sailors. If you want to ask these kinds of questions, I HIGHLY recommend you ask them on NKO :) Reason I say that is that 99% of the people on here are spouses or have information from when this happened to them years ago, not the up to the minute current information.
Myself and my husband are retired Chiefs, both retiring from Great Lakes. I worked at the CCC office and worked hand in hand withe CPC's that is why I know what the procedure is, I also know the people there still (so it wasn't very long ago I left).
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For what it's worth, I don't see how anyone should be offended by this or not like it. A Sailor researching the regs (especially nowadays when it's all online) and talking to their command experts and to their chain is always the best route. The rest of us can offer advice, give an idea as to what they can expect based on our own experiences or research, but when it comes down to it, none of us can authorize / deny the allowance, or submit the paperwork or approve leave or anything else like that. The only definitive answer that matters is the one the Navy gives them.
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