If both husband and wife are army active, and have kids, they can be deployed together?

Question

Army takes in count that a parent should stay to take care of the kids, of just deploy both parents and God knows what happen to the kid?

Answer 1

Yes they can deploy together.  They try not to deploy them together but it can happen.  If you are dual military then you have to have a family care plan for your kids to go somewhere if you are deployed together or you have to go to schools together or in the field.  I have seen it happen unfortunately.  

Answer 2

Yes they can. My husband and I were dual military and I got out of the army b/c of that fact. He is deployed right now and I would be as well...and we have 2 kids. There are a handful of other couples within his brigade that are also jointly deployed with kids. That is why every dual military couple (or single parent) must maintain a family care plan. This lays out who will be responsible for the children in situations just like these.  

Answer 3

As far as I know when there is a dual military couple, they will base you guys together, but the chances that you guys are in the same company is very slim. So they probably won't deploy together, and they don't take in consideration of the kids, they should've known having kids while both in the army, they were going to have to find some family member to care for them in the case they both get deployed.

Answer 4

You would probably be required to find a place for the kids. You joined the military, knowing there was a chance of being deployed. If you cause too much hassle with this, you or him may be discharged.

Answer 5

That's so wrong. If you have kids, you have a responsibility to look after them. One parent, or preferably both, should give up the army. What's more important - your nationalism or raising your children?

Answer 6

Yes, the Army can deploy both parents. Don't worry, the Army has it figured out. Dual military families, as well as single parents, are required to complete a Family Action Plan. It is a plan that outlines who would become the child's legal guardian in time of deployment. This is required in the Army.

Failure to complete this puts the soldier in a non-deployable status and subject to being administratively discharged from the Army.

What gets me is people who are not in the military sit there and blame the Army for both parent's deploying and say the kids are parentless.

Or like Tegan's answer...she clearly has no idea what she is talking about. It isn't wrong that the parents decided to stay in the military...they volunteered to continue to serve. And it isn't wrong that Army needs them to deploy. Someone should let Tegan know that surfing the military section of Yahoo Answers does not make her a subject matter expert...so unless you know from firsthand experience, don't judge what is right and wrong.

Answer 7

I guess it really helps to have a grandparent there who is very involved in your child's life. There can be deployments for both wife and husband at the same time. If you marry in your own service, I am sure that the service you and your husband are in would try to work with you. I am going into the military, and if I get married to military, I would just switch over to reserves. Not that you can't get deployed being a reservist though.

Answer 8

It can happen, yes....and if both husband and wife happen to get deployed at the same time, the child(ren) will be placed with a trusted family member.  

Answer 9

Of course, you are both soldiers.

If they were worried about leaving thier children, then they both wouldn't have enlisted.

All single service members with children and dual military couples,

Must have a family care plan on file.

That tell exactly, where the child will reside, how it will be cared for, by whom, if the parents are deployed.