What exactly is a deployment?

Question

Does it have to do with being gone for certain amount of time or how exactly is a deployment defined? Does it have to do with being sent to another permanent base?

When we returned from our yearly deployment we would always leave our home base for sometimes 1 1/2 months then another time 3 weeks then maybe 1 week then maybe a month again..Are these also deployments?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Examples of deployments in the Army are Iraq, Afghanistan, or other locations in support of OEF such as the Philippines, Somalia, and other parts of Africa.

If you went to something like NTC or JRTC, this does not count as a deployment.

Answer 3

yeah, what are you asking?  Where are you going to deployed to?  

Answer 4

I looked at deployments as when I did Med-floats or when we left conus for a training exercise.  I didn't look at in country stuff as deployments.  I looked at going to stumps for a CAX, even a double, as just a regular training exercise like when we went to Bragg or AP Hill.  I think 01XX pogues, and the like, do get orders if they're augmenting the unit, but I don't know for sure.  Anyways I always considered leaving CONUS for floats, training exercises or being flown over to Iraq or A-stan as deployments.  The 24th MEU flew over to A-stan to start their last deployment.

Answer 5

hey lavadog whats up? i thought you were soooooooooo knowledgeable about the military? you suck lavadog.

and no just beacuse you go to another base to train doesnt mean it's a deployment. deployments mean leaving the country with orders in hand. what branch are you in anyways? probably army...

Answer 6

i think they r  

Answer 7

You have got to stop testing the kiddies LD, you will make yourself crazy...or crazier.

I may have you beat for the odd deployment. It did not occur but we had to prepare in 79 or 80 to deliver mail. They we going to put us armed groups of 3 or 4. The postal workers did not strike. The press would have had fun with that!

After reading those responses I am going to go bang my head on the wall and hang some more sheetrock.

A big Semper Fi from an old Army Puke

Answer 8

well..that depends on the units mission. We "deployed" to NTC for a month. "Deploying" to another base coudl also be coined as TDY...but if you take out schools, then maybe it would be considered a deployment. I guess it just depends on what your mission is, and what the head honcho says.  

Answer 9

I think being deployed is when you leave the country for a set time. Because when my dad (who is in the military) had to go to say...kansas it was called a TDY. he was only gone for like a week. but when he had to go to afganistan (deployed) it was for 6 months...so deployment is when you leave the country..in my opinion

Answer 10

Wow, someone's not so smart. And you're IN the military?

A deployment is when you ... deploy ... generally to a combat zone. I'll use it in a sentence. "My Airborne Infantry Battalion DEPLOYED to Iraq." .. or "My company is DEPLOYING again to Afghanistan soon."

Get it?

Answer 11

d**n you got some idiots of top notch quality answering here today..they make themselves look real stupid when trying to make the questioner look stupid.

Answer 12

"to spread out or arrange strategically."

I do not think it has to be to an active war zone, but I believe it needs to be in conjunction with some type of official operation. For example, Bosnia is still considered a deployment but it is not an active war. But, we are there to accomplish a strategic mission.  

Answer 13

I dont think those are considered deployments because you aren't in another country on a mission.. If there was a specific mission then I would say yes but by the sound of it and how you describe it I would have to say no....  

Answer 14

When you go to another country.

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Answer 15

Its really defined differently by each branch.  For most people I know in the USMC, its being gone more than 6 months.  For AirForce, I know they count the 3-6 week things as deployments.  I think its kinda funny.  AF could say "i deployed 10 times this year" and the Army guy could say "well I've deployed once this year, and I am still gone 11 months later"  The Marines I know that are gone for a few weeks here and there before going overseas don't consider those deployments, they call them work-ups.