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I’m national guard, young, low ranking, but desperately want to deploy immediately, before College. Thank you!
Deployment
Overseas
Combat
Volunteering
Posted 8 y ago
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Highly unlikely as a 74D, unless DPRK goes sideways. Then all bets are off.
OPTEMPO is not terribly high right now, unless you are in an MOS field that is in demand.
CA, Cyber, UAV...
After that it is kind of luck of the draw, unless you can hook onto a tour through Tour of Duty.
For perspective, my CA battalion has supported 14 company-sized and a dozen smaller missions since 9/11, and we have more on the horizon. The Chemical Recon unit in the same building hasn't deployed ever. It isn't their fault, it is just what the mission set has been.
OPTEMPO is not terribly high right now, unless you are in an MOS field that is in demand.
CA, Cyber, UAV...
After that it is kind of luck of the draw, unless you can hook onto a tour through Tour of Duty.
For perspective, my CA battalion has supported 14 company-sized and a dozen smaller missions since 9/11, and we have more on the horizon. The Chemical Recon unit in the same building hasn't deployed ever. It isn't their fault, it is just what the mission set has been.
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Have you checked Tour of Duty? You can search for deployment vacancies with other units and apply, given you meet prerequisites like rank, MOS, etc..
https://mobcop.army.mil/MobcopPortal/UI/Login.aspx
https://mobcop.army.mil/MobcopPortal/UI/Login.aspx
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It's funny how life works. Unfortunately, deployments don't work around your schedule, you work around there's. As soon as you begin college...YOU'LL get called up for a deployment, as soon as you get married, YOU'LL spend your first year of marriage overseas, without your husband, etc. You signed up to defend our country, not for the college money...even though that's a great perk. Relax and continue on with your life's plans, in defending our country and in your civilian life.
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LTC Stephen Conway
PV2 (Join to see) - each state has their own Special Response Team. California has two of them which are cbrn and a train as active duty soldiers. I would suggest in the meantime to get as many cbrn additional schools as they offer in the Army National Guard. That way, you can become promotable faster and make Sergeant very soon. I knew an unemployed soldier who was going to college and when he joined my civil Affairs Army reserve unit, he took his Airborne school because we were an Airborne unit he took every single course they offered him or if they need people for special mission to help out locally, he was there and he went from private first class to Sergeant in 2 years. Ask your Army National Guard full-time AGR staff if they can put you on mobcop. It's a military website where you put in all your credentials and anybody who needs a cbrn person like you can pull you up and get you started toward an active duty tour could be 90 days could be up to 2 years. What it does is it puts you there as a volunteer and it saves a lot of time if they need somebody very soon. It also helps if they want to put you on up to 29 day orders for training, you are in the system.
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Why is everyone in such a rush to deploy? I fear that too many of our young service members have a romantic or skewed idea of what deploying means and entails and what they really get out of the experience (If they get out of it at all). What is wrong with do I g your job as expected and working on other areas of your career? I'm sure you can postpone the deployment stuff until you are more familiar with the military and sufficiently prepared, both physically and mentally, for the rigors of a deployment.
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SGT Joseph Gunderson
PV2 (Join to see) - oh, don't get me wrong, I admire your spirit. I just believe that you would be better served by focusing that positive energy elsewhere. Don't focus so much on having to deploy so soon. Complete some trainings, go to military schools, get some college classes out of the way, do things that will make you a better soldier in the long run. There will always be time later to deploy, sadly war is not going to end anytime in the foreseeable future.
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Originally, that was my plan. Unfortunately, some training is going to interfere with school, so I have some downtime before my next semester. I DO NOT want to sit on my ass and wait for school. Hence my question on deploying. I’m trying to get on an Airborne rotation November of 2018, hopefully that’ll work out.
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SGT Joseph Gunderson
PV2 (Join to see) - Well, if you just have to wait until next semester, them I wouldn't be trying to deploy. An army deployment lasts 12-15 months. That will pull you out of the college game for a bit longer than a semester. Work on some of the little army stuff. SSD1 and 2 (3 if you feel squirrelly) will give you something productive to knock out. See if you can find a WLC, or whatever they call it now, slot that you can get into in the following months.
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If I got on a deployment, I’d miss a couple of semesters, naturally. Thank you, sergeant!
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