military spouses-- both in uniform

[DHG]

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What happens if one person is a military dentist (army, navy, etc.) and the other is a pharmacist with the Public Health Service? Both are technically comissioned, but the PHS is not quite the same as the armed services.

1) If the PHS officer wants to transfer to the military branch the dental spouse is in, will their years of service and rank be transferrable?

2) Will the military dent's branch take into consideration the pharmacist spouse's PHS location when the dent requests a duty station, or vice versa?

I'm a pharmacy student graduating in 2010, very interested in the PHS (I did a COSTEP last summer and loved it). My husband is (maybe) going to dental school and we were discussing different scenerios if he ended up going the military route.

Any insight into this kind of situation? I wouldn't mind transfering out of the PHS after my obligation was up and into another branch (if that's even an option, not sure it is), but I also wondered about how much you are risking conflicting delpoyments/assignments when both spouses are military, or if one is PHS and one is military.

He's interested in PHS dentistry too, but the military incentives for students (no school debt) are pretty impressive, and PHS COSTEP, while nice, doesn't compare.

I'm thinking this might be too complicated. Any thoughts?

EDIT: I'm sorry, I just noticed that I am in the Medicine forums, not the Dental forums. Sorry about that. I tried to delete the entire post but couldn't figure out how. Oh well!

 

[NavyFP]

What happens if one person is a military dentist (army, navy, etc.) and the other is a pharmacist with the Public Health Service? Both are technically comissioned, but the PHS is not quite the same as the armed services.

1) If the PHS officer wants to transfer to the military branch the dental spouse is in, will their years of service and rank be transferrable?

2) Will the military dent's branch take into consideration the pharmacist spouse's PHS location when the dent requests a duty station, or vice versa?

I'm a pharmacy student graduating in 2010, very interested in the PHS (I did a COSTEP last summer and loved it). My husband is (maybe) going to dental school and we were discussing different scenerios if he ended up going the military route.

Any insight into this kind of situation? I wouldn't mind transfering out of the PHS after my obligation was up and into another branch (if that's even an option, not sure it is), but I also wondered about how much you are risking conflicting delpoyments/assignments when both spouses are military, or if one is PHS and one is military.

He's interested in PHS dentistry too, but the military incentives for students (no school debt) are pretty impressive, and PHS COSTEP, while nice, doesn't compare.

I'm thinking this might be too complicated. Any thoughts?

EDIT: I'm sorry, I just noticed that I am in the Medicine forums, not the Dental forums. Sorry about that. I tried to delete the entire post but couldn't figure out how. Oh well!

1) Yes, your time would be transferable.

2) They will consider it, but are not obligated to do anything.

 

[Kabek]

1) If the PHS officer wants to transfer to the military branch the dental spouse is in, will their years of service and rank be transferrable?

Time in service is the same and transfers. However, transferring from the PHS to the bullet thrower side of the house will most likely result in a decrease in rank. It just depends on the service.