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Anyone married to their husbands while they were in AIT ?
Was anyone married to their husbands while in AIT training and what was your experience? After 7 years together my husband decided on joining the military. He was supose to leave for basic in March of next year. When he went to sign papers, guess what?! His date was pushed up to OCT of this year, which is good bc the money and the benifits sooner. However, I was already 3 months preggers. So he is probably going to miss the birth of our baby in Feb while he is in AIT. So we are debating whether or not I should go with and have the baby in texas and maybe even see him. But at the same time it might be best for me to stay where we live in Tampa to be close to friends and family.
Does anyone have a similar experience or advice?
Re: Anyone married to their husbands while they were in AIT ?
All of this. I followed my H to tech school (what the AF calls AIT) and while I loved having that time together, I wish I would have stayed home. Looking back, we could have saved so much money as well as he would have been more focused on his studies. He still did very well, but I know he could have done better.
And BTW, I notice you're in Riverview? We live in right across the Gandy bridge!
I moved to be with my H during tech school and do not regret it. However, I only saw him on evenings and weekends and he had to study a lot of the time too. Now that I've had a baby, I can tell you that a good support system is essential. Stay where you are with your family and move with your H when he gets stationed.
You can fly to visit him on a long weekend or something if able. I flew with my LO at 7 weeks and she did great! GL.
Okay, my H is a medic. I'd say stay home. Medic's are not given overnight passes during AIT at all. I went down to visit my H for Thanksgiving (he was allowed to leave post, but he had to be back by 11 every night and then I had to go pick him up the next morning to hang out). My H hasn't deployed, he's in the reserves and his unit was already overseas and at capacity when he finished AIT.
San Antonio is beautiful, so I'd say at least go visit, Thanksgiving time (if he's phased to get off post privileges) is amazing, it's not freezing there but the river walk gets lit up with Christmas lights, and sea world is all Christmas-y. You do get into sea world once a year for free, so we took advantage of that while I was there.
I'm pretty sure there's someone else on here who has a medic in the family... and I don't have much experience with the actual job but I can help with AIT questions. Feel free to PM me.
I agree with the others, stay at home. While my DH was in AIT i was AD on the same base. We barely saw each other. It was a headache and a half. My command had to talk to his command...
It just isn't worth it. You won't see him as much as you think you will.