Posted on Dec 3, 2015
How many Combat/Humanitarian tours have you particpated in during your military career?
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I am proud to say, I deployed a total of 5 combat and 1 humanitarian tours in my career. Here is a brief snapshot:
SFC(R) Davis has deployed to Operation Uphold Democracy Haiti,1994-1995-3/62 ADA FT.Drum, NY; Operation Iraqi Freedom I, II, and III (2003, 2004-2005) respectively with the 513th TC FT. Lewis, WA; OIF-VI, HHC ASG Camp Arifjan Area Support Group (ASG), Kuwait 2008-2009, and Operation New Dawn, 6th Trans Battalion 2011-2012, Operation Enduring Freedom, BAF, Afghanistan 2013-2014 15th BSB 2/1 CAV DIV
SFC(R) Davis has deployed to Operation Uphold Democracy Haiti,1994-1995-3/62 ADA FT.Drum, NY; Operation Iraqi Freedom I, II, and III (2003, 2004-2005) respectively with the 513th TC FT. Lewis, WA; OIF-VI, HHC ASG Camp Arifjan Area Support Group (ASG), Kuwait 2008-2009, and Operation New Dawn, 6th Trans Battalion 2011-2012, Operation Enduring Freedom, BAF, Afghanistan 2013-2014 15th BSB 2/1 CAV DIV
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Kuwait '00
"Deployed" in place for Space Shuttle Columbia recovery '03
Data Masked early '04
North Korea '04
Kuwait '05-06
Afghanistan '07
Iraq '09
Afghanistan '10-11
A lot of extended (30 days or more) TDYs
"Deployed" in place for Space Shuttle Columbia recovery '03
Data Masked early '04
North Korea '04
Kuwait '05-06
Afghanistan '07
Iraq '09
Afghanistan '10-11
A lot of extended (30 days or more) TDYs
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
MSgt John Carroll thank you, this is what its all about and your deployment time line tells of your commitment to DUTY HONOR COUNTRY! Well received thread and storied.
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MSgt John Carroll
SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL - Thank you very much but as you are aware, we don't do this for the recognition or the pay. I have been chomping at the bit to go again but I have been plagued with surgeries since my 10-11 tour. I am finally medically cleared to travel again but I am not cleared to go back in to a "hot" spot. I don't think that will ever happen again. I was having a discussion a few weeks ago with all of my Airmen E-6 and below and let them know that the honeymoon is over and I only have a little more than 1 year left in the Air Force. I told them that I have to live vicariously through them, all my war stories are old war stories. That then turned in to a candid mentorship session. You know what, that is what I will miss the most.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
MSgt John Carroll I can relate, my Soldiers called me "OLE TYMER" and they respected me until the day I got out. I will never forgot the memories. You are a hero amongst your Airmen and the Nation. I can truly relate with over 25 years of Service to the Nation.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL Planned, deployed, and participated in several Medical Readiness Missions to South America and one stateside (the Flood of 93) along the Illinois River
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
COL Mikel J. Burroughs thank you for your service. I remember crossing the Mississippi River and crossing into Iowa-headed to Fort Ord, California on I-80. I could see the fields and the watermark trees for miles where the food had risen and rescinded. I will never forgot crossing the Mississippi River with about 10 feet of clearance.
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Desert Storm....activated only
Now in AGR as Rctr....never deployed but provide the strength for about 18 more months! It makes me upset to not have earned that combat patch, but grateful that God had other plans!
Now in AGR as Rctr....never deployed but provide the strength for about 18 more months! It makes me upset to not have earned that combat patch, but grateful that God had other plans!
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
SFC A.M. Drake thank you for your service. Well said and profoundly expressed. I never deployed to DS/DS, I was on stand-by and have regrets of not participating, it haunted me years. I finally got a chance in in 2003 to deploy and fight in a conventional war zone against a nation(force on force warfare).
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Only deployed one time. Operation Joint Endeavor in '96 and carried over into Operation Joint Guard in '97.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL I had to help set up, on Yokota AF base, thousands of cots for possible incoming American evacuees from China for Tienanmen Square. Does that count?
(I jest. I know it doesn't. Just throwing a little humor, SFC!)
(I jest. I know it doesn't. Just throwing a little humor, SFC!)
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
SN Greg Wright you better believe it counts. Thanks for sharing and for your service.
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Operation Sea Signal (Humanitarian) Sept 94 - Feb 95 GITMO
DS/DS Al Jaber 98 (response to Kenya Embassy after bombings)
OIF Kirkuk AB Oct 03- May 04
OIF Balad AB, July - Oct 09
OIF/OEF Manas AB, May - Nov 07
OEF Kandahar AB, May - Nov 10
DS/DS Al Jaber 98 (response to Kenya Embassy after bombings)
OIF Kirkuk AB Oct 03- May 04
OIF Balad AB, July - Oct 09
OIF/OEF Manas AB, May - Nov 07
OEF Kandahar AB, May - Nov 10
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Since 1982, I'm on number 10...not those Air Force 90 or 180 day types either. 6 bona-fide combat (although one was fobbit-based in Iraq), and #7 was labeled "humanitarian" and later credited combat (Honduras during the day-Nicaragua at night)... Then the Bosnia & Kosovo & twice to Korean DMZ (don't know what the hell to call that...but no family & no fun). What I have noticed over the years....it's about timing and chance...not the individual. You can get assigned to a unit right after they came back, so no deployment for you....or you could come home from a deployment and get assigned to another unit going back. Timing and chance, and being Combat Arms MOS seems to have a hand in it too. No small surprise that I served with the postee SFC (R) Davis when he was in 2/1 CAV together in Afghanistan. As I sit here in Korea with 2/1 CAV this makes my 4th time with 2/1 CAV alone....2nd BDE, 1st Cavalry is the most deployed Armored Brigade in the Army (and some of us are pretty damned tired!)
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LTC Stephen Conway
Honduras. the Contra War that could have been really ugly had Nicaragua pursued the fight into Honduras. My Mother is from Honduras. I am amazed El Salvador is pacified now and red flags are now political party hqs and not rogue CPs on the route to San Salvador. Thanks for your service CSM! my posting was nothing compared to yours! 10 tours! wow thanks for putting up with all this. you made CSM so you are in the top of the NCO rank congrats to you too!
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CSM (Join to see)
LTC Stephen Conway - Thank you Sir, it's not bragging. It's really about timing & chance as previously described. It does however, come with a price. I lost count of birthdays, holidays and one time events I missed out on; but making it up with my family has been the priority.
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LTC Stephen Conway
Roger CSM, I know the feeling. Not the same to see the kid on skype teleconference than being there in person.
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Right on Sir (MAJ).... my 89, 92, 94, 95 and 03 deployments had not connections. Mail call was the morale event (more so than chow).... by 95 & later... the AT&T phone tents were the rage
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I am currently on my 5th Deployment. 2003-2004 OIF, 2005-2006 OIF, 2010-2011 OEF, 2012-2013 OEF, and 2015-2016 OFS/ORS.
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LTC Stephen Conway
Good job SFC Conway from MAJ Conway (not sure if we are related but my Conway family is from Missouri and Minnesota. I at UPS Canada with a Conway in Edmonton, Alberta and he is not related to me either) I am proud of your service on all of your deployments! I salute You!
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1 Combat: OEF 2006 and 1 Humanitarian: Operation Continuing Promise in 2008
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
PO1 (Join to see) thank you for your DUTY HONOR COUNTRY commitment to the Nation.
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