When did you find out you 1st duty station.?

Question

my husband is going to be done with AIT in about 3 weeks and we still don't know were his duty station is going to be, and there are people here who wont be done for months and they already know. but what i would like to know is, people have told me some times you wont know til days before you leave. is this true, and i have been told all kinds of things about housing like it will take months to get one or soldiers who are going to there 1st station get moved up on the list.. and one more thing i read on-line That you don't get a room for each of your kids,is this true. i Hope not we have a boy and a girl and there is a 5 year age different's in them.

Answer 1

I found out in Tech School.  I had to have my clearance and my tech school was 6 months, so there was no big rush.  So I would guess I found out about 3 months in advance.  Somewhere in that time frame.  

Answer 2

USMC: About 2 weeks before I graduated my A school.

USAF: about two days after I put in my dream sheet and went BACK to MEPS to do the actual enlistment since I wasn't going to have to retrain or go to USAF BMT.  

Answer 3

I went through 18 weeks of OSUT (Basic and AIT combined). I found out I was going to Germany the day of graduation, once in germany it took about 4 more days before I was assigned to my first duty station.

Don't know how long the list for housing is because I don't know where you are going. You will get a bedroom for each of your kids since one is a boy and one a girl...

If you have two boys, you might get a 2 bedroom house, or wait for a 3 bedroom... all depends on what is availible at the time and where you are going...