I am currently in the Army and stationed overseas. I built my collection since ive been here in Germany. It would be next to impossible for me to take my animals back to the states with mr. Luckily for me I am etsing in less than a year and will be missing the next deployment. I am staying here so I will not have to worry about moving the snakes. I personally would not want to do it. Drag my collection around. But should you get stationed overseas you should have the option of doing an unaccompanied tour. At least in the army you do. This means you do a 2 year tour without moving hour spouse instead of the 3 year if you did move him. This option would allow you to keep the snakes. If your spouse wants to care for them.