My boyfriend is wanting to join the RAF. We live in the UK I'm not sure if that makes a difference to what it is outside the UK. He's put in his application and is waiting to hear back.

We've been together a short amount of time. But when you know you wanna be with someone its so hard to imagine them going away for months at a time. We've both discussed that we wouldn't want to be apart but breaking up seems worse than at least trying.
I'm quite a clingy girlfriend. I love been able to see him and cuddle him and do things whenever we like. I love to be in contact with him everyday just to check in, he likes that as well.. I'm not sure if I could deal with not having all this and he's unsure as well however we wanna give it a shot because how much we care.

My question is how often do you get to talk and see your partners? How hard is it? And does it put more strain on a relationship?