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What is the maximum number of tours of duty that a person/unit has served in Iraq/Afghanistan in last 8 yrs?

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Obama just made reference to troops serving 5 tours. Is this information correct?

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  1. I think I've heard of people serving 5 tours.  Generally in services with shorter tours of duty, and who volunteered to return for more.


  2. Depends on the service branch and tour length.

    For 12 month or 15 month tours,

    There are some who have deployed 3 times for those.

    They are on their 3rd tour now.

    But the Air Force only deploys for 60 to 90 days, There are some airmen, who have deployed 6 to 8 times already.

    Over 46% of the people in the military, have never deployed.

    Another 25% have deployed just once.

    Most soldiers will deploy , just once in their initial 4 year enlistment.

    Of course, there are some soldiers who deployed twice and some marines who deployed 3 times.

    But there are no service members, who have done 5separate, year long tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Marines will deploy twice in a four year enlistment.

  3. Thats not very good way to phrase the question. IE Marines serve around 8 month tours. Air Force as little as 6 month tours, and Army up to 15+ month tours.

    So Marines would have more tours than an Army person, however the Army guy and Marine would have around the same amount of months deployed.

    So yes a Marine, or Air Force or Navy guy may have that many tours, but Army guys would have no more than 4 tours

    hope that made sense

  4. since 2002 a family member i know has gone over 6 times...

    but he's at a rapid deploy unit and also pcs'ed to a new unit and deployed shortly after returning.

  5. I personally know of a corpsman who has been deployed 4 times in the past 8 years. I know of many other men though that have easily gone 5.

  6. I'm not sure about 5 but I have heard of people serving 4.

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