Can an unaccompanied pregnant SM stationed in Korea, who already has a curtailment, get orders to PCS to CONUS before being put in the MACP?

2022-10-28T14:31:45-04:00

Hello, Im currently stationed at JBLM, but my wife is stationed at Camp Humphreys and she is currently pregnant. From what I understand she is not authorized to be in the barracks with A baby because Shes unaccompanied?.. She already did a curtailment and its in brigade. Ive already done my MACP enrollment from my side but her COC is still working on her MACP on her side.. does anyone know if she can get her orders to come with me to JBLM before they put the MACP on her side? (because she has already done the curtailment) Has anyone dealt with this before?

PS. Shes now 4 months pregnant and needs to get her orders soon before she becomes unflyable. Thank you so much!

Response by COL Randall C. made Oct 28 at 2022 3:11 PM

2022-10-28T15:11:48-04:00

Only one of you needed to request MACP if you're under the same personnel section covering you (i.e., in the same Brigade, same post, etc). Otherwise one initiates it and the both sign it. Assuming she is in the Army as well, you shouldn't have a situation where you both need to do a MACP request.

Having said that, contact the Enlisted Procedures and Soldier Actions Branch at HRC and they can give you a definitive answer on the timeline and if possible.
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Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 28 at 2022 8:02 PM

2022-10-28T20:02:20-04:00

Let's break this down into parts because it sounds like you don't know what these terms mean.

First, if your spouse is pregnant she doesn't have a baby. Pregnancy does not = baby in the barracks. If she is still in Korea when the baby arrives, and she does not have a family care plan, she may/will be separated. She is definitely not authorized to be in the barracks with a child, but she can certainly command sponsor a child.

Signing a document is not a curtailment. Your spouse submitted a request for a curtailment, she did not receive one. It hadn't even reached the point of the desk of the person who says yes or no. It may very well get kicked back because she forgot to sign something. The point is that your spouse doesn't have a curtailment; your spouse submitted a request for a curtailment that has not been processed yet. That's like saying you're the owner of a football team because you offered the owner's sister's brother's uncle a six pack.

You didn't do your MACP enrollment, MACP is a two person event. You may have submitted your part, but if your spouse hasn't enrolled in MACP yet then the two of you are not in MACP. There's nothing for her command to "work on" it's her job to request it, she just needs a signature from her company commander.

Finally, curtailment means that she will be placed on assignment. Curtailment means her DEROS is changed and usually means she's is placed on assignment. It doesn't matter if she gets orders today or next January, her report date will always be shortly after her DEROS. Her ability to get orders as a pregnant female depend on HRC finding a non-deployable unit to place her in, in her MOS and skill level, at the base they are trying to base her at. If you're MACP, sometimes that means you both got to Riley, Drum, or Bragg together. Hopefully she's not a super low density MOS like your own because it's really hard to find open spots in those MOS's and you could find that you're on assignment to Korea instead.