Quick question about enlisting into the US ARMY?

Lets take this in order. First, you don't have to sign over rights to your child. You can keep joint custody without any major issues.

You will need to enroll your child in DEERS, the army medical system Now for the rest. 1. Spouse benifits include medical, dental (if enrolled), ID card privilages such as use of military base facilities, and many others.

You do recieve more BAH with dependents, but since you have a child that won't change by getting married. You will qualify for family separation pay only during deployments. 2.

You will not be able to live off base in most cases until after AIT. Some longer MOS training might let you get housing, but it is a commanders choice. A family care plan will be nessicary if you have custody, even temparaty custody, but you already said the father is in the picture and you are OK with that.

You could also use your fiancee if he decides to live with you. 3. Married soldiers do make slightly more money, but this is almost always offset by the expenses of not living in the barracks. All army paychecks are done via direct deposit, so if you want to send money you could open a joint account, even set up an allotment to where a set amount each month will be sent to a seperate account for your child or fiancee.

4. You will not be able to go home during basic, but may be able to in AIT during long weekends or holidays. Again, this would be a decission your unit commander would make.

5. Don't always believe everything your recruiter tells you. His job is to put bodies in uniform any way he legaly can.

The will often tell you what you want to hear, but unless you get it in writing there are no gaurantees. Unless your fiancee/husband is authorized by you and your childs father (in the case of joint custody), he will not have legal writes to the child. He can be used in a family care plan as temporary custodian until the father can take over custody, or both you and the father can agree that the fiancee can keep custody while you are gone.

Your recutier is right about one thing. Though the army won't say it officialy, most commanders don't like having single parrents in their units because there tends to be more problems. It won't technicaly change anything to be married, but there is still an old fashion view of things in the military.

I hope this helps answer some of your questions.

1. If you got married your spouse would get health benefits and ID Card. He would get a packet in the mail.

Yes you will get family seperation pay. However once you get to your duty station and he decides not to move you will not qualify for family seperation pay. 2.

If married yes you could keep custody and I'm assuming your spouse then would be the FCP. 3. If married you would get BAH for the zip code of your residence.

Once you get to your duty station the BAH rate will change to that location. You won't get paid for almost 4 to 6 weeks. It will be back dated though.

4. No. The mileage is to far to go visit.

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