Picmajik
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Depends on the assignment
I know that in some US Army assignments soldiers were given an option of either 1 year deployment if going solo but 3 years deployment if taking a family. It would depend on Andrew's assignment. While he was shipboard as a pilot Sarah could not have gone out to sea with him but if he were working on a base then family housing may have been available. In the US Navy with submarine duty there used to be 6 month shifts where the seaman would be gone for 6 months straight then home for 6 months. The wife would be able to stay on base housing if it were the land shift. As a helicopter pilot I believe he would have had many at sea deployments so it would have been considered easier for Sarah and the girls to stay at home and establish roots with other friends/family/school etc rather than transfer all over the place.
That situation is unfortunately not unknown among military families however I think that another one of the members who understands the military said that Sarah had quite reasonably expected to be able to live with Andrew where he was stationed and when she wasn't allowed, it made the marriage more difficult. Elizabeth and Philip had lived together early in their marriage on a military base and the Queen later said it was one of the happiest times of her life. I don't know the rationale for why the Queen was allowed and Sarah was not but whatever the case, if Sarah expected her married life to be under one set of conditions and it turned out to follow another set of conditions, that would put a strain on the marriage. Not excusing her behavior, mind you, but just trying to understand it.
I know that in some US Army assignments soldiers were given an option of either 1 year deployment if going solo but 3 years deployment if taking a family. It would depend on Andrew's assignment. While he was shipboard as a pilot Sarah could not have gone out to sea with him but if he were working on a base then family housing may have been available. In the US Navy with submarine duty there used to be 6 month shifts where the seaman would be gone for 6 months straight then home for 6 months. The wife would be able to stay on base housing if it were the land shift. As a helicopter pilot I believe he would have had many at sea deployments so it would have been considered easier for Sarah and the girls to stay at home and establish roots with other friends/family/school etc rather than transfer all over the place.