Can a married couple with kids join the army together?

My fiancee and I are about to get married and we both would like to join the army. I have a child from before the marriage and we have one together. Will we both be allowed to join? And if we cant join together can one enlist after the other?Can a married couple with kids join the army together?
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YES, you can both join the Army and with the kids. You are going to have to do a few thigns though. First off, make sure that you are both married before you enlist. That way the kids have medical care taken care of and you can also get the BAH pay and all that.





Second involves the kids. You will need to be able to give temporary custody of the children to someone else. Hopefully, ya'll have some family that you can trust to take care of the kids while you are gone to basic training.





The best thing for ya'll to do is go in one person at a time. After the first one gets done with the training, get a family care plan going while the other one is gone to training. What this is for is in the event that the one taht is already at the duty station with the kids while the other is in training has to deploy or somethign like that, there will be someone that can take care of the children.





For you both to have a better shot at being stationed at the same place, both of you can enroll in a program called the MACP (Married Army Couples Program). This raises a flag when your branch managers are looking to assign either of you and tells the branch manger that the soldier is married to another soldier and will do the best they can to assign you to the same base. It usually works about 90% of the time.





When you are both at the duty station and out of training, you will need to keep your family care plan for the children. You will need to have someone set up to be able to take care of the children for short term and long term lengths of time. You will also need to have someone that can be a ';backup'; in case the primary persons become not able to take care of the kids.





So yes, you and your fiance can both be in the military together and married to each other with the kids. And no, one of you doesn't have to be in the Reserves. Being in the Reserves you will still have to have the family care plan.Can a married couple with kids join the army together?
Its possible if you both agree and have someone who is willing to care for the kids while you attend basic training. You may want to think about actually BEING married before you enlist. If you are single you may not get stationed together. Being engaged on opposite sides of the world is a recipe for disaster when it comes to marriage. If that's not possible or practicable, then you will have to enlist one at a time.
one of you would have to join the army first while the other one raises the kids then the other person can join ,you might be stationed together but the odds on that are 50/50 depending on what the job you trained for is and you get stationed here in the states .but if you have no kids and join together that might be a whole lot different .
no. one of you will have to go Reserves. you cannot both go AD with kids in the mix.





in fact as it stands right now neither of you can enlist at all as you are both considered single parents. when you get married whoever goes in first will need a waiver for having three dependents unless they go Reserves. and even then they will need a rock solid family Care Plan.
Not that I'm aware of. You would probably have to give up custody for the both of you to join together.


If your married you can enlist after one another. Engaged means single to the army.
Talk to a recruiter and find out their policy. If the Army won't take you, maybe other services will, like the Coast Guard.