Posted on Jun 29, 2017
Is it possible to serve in the military without ever being deployed? Is this controlled by your CO or other factors?
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It's possible. Even during the height of OIF and OEF there were folks who never deployed. On the other hand, there were several folks (myself included) who deployed multiple times. To be blunt, if you aren't willing to deploy you shouldn't join the military.
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Jennifer Farley
No, exactly and I agree! I often hear the deployment is one reason they do join - they want to be deployed to different places and get to experience it.
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There are numerous factors that play into this. But simple answer is yes, you can go an entire career without ever having deployed.
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SGT Dave Tracy
No doubt. And depending on when one served and their MOS, it is definitely possible to spend and entire career and deploy only to a training area. Odds of that may not be great, but you are right, it's possible. I had a Ranger tabbed Infantry 1SG who only had 6 months deployment time over his 20+ year career. So that's not exactly "no deployment", but can you imagine the low odds of someone like that spending so little time deployed?!
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SPC Donn Sinclair
My son's been in 14 years, done four combat tours. When he told me about this issue, I was mystified, still am. When I was in, (100 years ago), the Army couldn't get me to Vietnam fast enough.
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