If you are going to get married either way I say, the sooner the better. Living off post is the same as living in any community. You pay rent, pay your utilities, lock up at night and when you leave. As long as you don't live outside of your means (most young couples do) you'll be fine.
Advantages: free or very low cost medical and dental care. safe environment to live in, steady income, regular promotions, all of your neighbors are in the same boat as you are. Even if you live off post odds are that your neighbors will be military couples. The Army is usually the major employer for an area, it's not as though there are Army bases in large cities (with very rare exceptions like Presidio, CA).
If he has follow-on orders fo his first permanent duty station he can request to be put on the on post housing waiting list. If he doesn't know where he's going yet (I mean, actually has written and signed orders) then he'll have to wait for those orders before he can put his name on the list.Future army wife advice about benefits needed!?
there can be a wait to get on base housing. you and your boyfriend will not be placed on the list until you are married. i suggest that if you are getting married do it after basic. that way the military will have time to get you in the system, you can save money( he will be paid more) and when he does get his duty station he can be placed on the waiting list sooner.
Here's a website that will give you lots of info on what 's available as a military spouse. It's built by the Department of Defense. Hope it helps.
http://www.militaryonesource.com/MOS/Arm鈥?/a>
There is no leave after Basic, he has to report to AIT usually right away. he will not have enough leave on the books to take it. Unless you are thinking of over the holidays for Exodus, in which he would then be required to find his own way home at his own cost and it can be taken as leave so he will go negative. He will get leave when he finishes AIT and is going to his first command.
There is no guarantee that you will get into housing right away when he reports to AIT. He will have to file the necessary paperwork for the move to take place at all. He can apply for housing but as you are not married he cannot until he has it approved that you can move there. He also needs to do it himself, you cannot do anything unless you have a Power of Attorney that allows you to do it. If you do get housing on base then it will not be until around week 9 before he can stay there with you. Before that he is required to stay in barracks. And can be put back on restrictions at any time if someone messes up enough. If you can't get on post housing then he gets BAH w/dependents to pay for rent %26amp; utilities. Often you can find a place in the neighborhood which is under that amount and is decent.
ETA: When he reports to his first command, there can be a wait time of up to 2 years in some locations to get into housing. He will get BAH w/dependents if you are married based on where he is stationed. This is to pay for the rent/mortgage %26amp; utilities. If he is stationed overseas then you can be required to live on base and he would need to be married before he leaves to have the paperwork changed from no dependents to w/dependents and therefore sponsorship needed. There are some locations where he can get stationed and you can't go at all but he will be there for 1 year instead of 2 to 3 years on normal orders.
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