Another point I didn't make clear was that although we're both looking into the military, only one of us is planning on actually enlisting. Neither of us have finished 4 years of school as of yet so we won't get to go in the officer program right away. My wife is most interested in the armys vet tech program. She is currently a vet tech already and loves the work and she is going to school to become a full fledge Vet. One of the biggest bonuses is having the army pay for the rest of her schooling as her current boss that recently got out of vet school is paying 3100 a month in student loans. We understand the possiblity of being sent to a war zone is possible, although most of what we have read/heard from speaking to other army vet techs is that not as many go, especially women as they can't go to combat as it is. Also, although I'm looking as well we're leaning more and more toward her going as most of the jobs I'm interested in are combat jobs, giving me a near 100% chance of being sent overseas and my wife is not happy with those odds. We both will not be enlisting as besides the extra strain on the marriage, we don't feel it's fair to our parents or our daughter to have us both possibly sent away and have our child being raised by her grandparents. Other then that any advice or experiences both pro/con are greatly appreciated as we don't want to go into this without having all of our bases covered.