Moving and Marriage in the US Military
#JHR_Threads "Making Big Decisions: The Impact of Moves on Marriage Among US Personnel" by Susan Payne Carter and Abigail Wozniak
“Making Big Decisions: The Impact of Moves on Marriage Among US Personnel" by Susan Payne Carter and Abigail Wozniak, 2021, Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming. (URL)
Introduction
Growing up, I had several classmates who had just moved to town because one of their parents was employed in the military. These kids would one day show up to school, stay a few years, and then move when their parent had been reassigned somewhere else.
These types of military moves, I would later learn, were both sort of expected and sort of unpredictable for the family. They knew the moves were coming but didn’t know quite when. The timing of that move, in other words, was the random piece. They must have felt as though someone above them was pulling balls from an urn, calling out numbers, and when theirs was called, off they’d go to the next location.
The US Army’s operations and logistics is tasked with the responsibility to allocate its capital and people across its varied needs in the most efficien…
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