Here’ how damn stupid the entire idea is in the US military.
You have two good drinking buddies, neither one wants to live in the barracks. Both would rather live off-base and draw about $1,000 a month BAQ (Basic Allowance for Quarters). And no meal card for them anymore, they are married so they get to draw BAS (basic allowance for subsistance) So they run on down to the local justice and “get married”. They take the money, rent a nice place and have a the coldest beer in the world to watch games with. In the meantime it’s all perfectly legal because they are “married”. I wonder if anyone thought for a damn minute about occurrences like this, because it will happen all over the Armed Forces. Marriage is either stands for something, which is the union of a man and woman, or it stands for nothing. Next it will be legalized pologamy, then some bastard wanting to marry his daughter or pretty little poodle dog. And who in the hell can tell them it’s not legal? Anthony Kennedy has already said anything goes in “marriage” in the depraved states of America, when he legalized sodomy in Texas, which is now the law of the land.
George Washington is rolling over in his grave.
If they are both in the military only one gets BAH if they are married.
I knew several airmen who did this to get out of the barracks. It’s not so bad now since they went to the 1 + 1 dormitories. You only share a bathroom. Some bases have separate bathrooms in each room.
They changed the BAQ rules. Its called BAH (basic allowance for housing) now and if both parties are military the highest ranking individual would get full rate and the lower ranking would draw single rate.