What is deployment for 13M/HIMARS like?

Don't know how much it's changed since I was in. But 97-01 it consisted of Monday vehical inspection Tues and Weds working on those. Thurs miscellaneous and sergeants time then Fri motor pool cleanup for the weekend. And sporadic details everything from manning the wash rack to cutting grass around post and what nots. Of course this is back when the launcher was a track vehical.

We spent most of the time on guard duty my first deployment, my second we dumped the tracks and loaded up on high back cause they all just broke down.

I was on rear det when my unit did an actual HIMARS deployment, but here's what I know. For them, it was primarily a massive training mission with the host nation (not sure I'm allowed to say which nation). The host nation was buying HIMARS so they spent the year training them, from what I've heard they had a lot of fun doing a lot of not only live firing but also apparently plenty of air missions, loading the launchers into a plane (both c17s and c130s).. Plane lands, launchers exit, fire and then return to the plane.

Generally, I think if actually deployed to a combat zone, they're usually staged on fob much like the patriot missile batteries, though I have no verification for this