Posted on Jan 6, 2017
SFC Dennis A.
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During my time in the military I PCS'ed to a new duty station 8 times, 3 TDY's and 2 Deployments not counting the original trip to basic and the departure at retirement.
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Edited 9 y ago
PCSed 12 times, probably twice that many TDY. Was never deployed, unless you count three hardship tours to Korea.

Ft. Knox (OSUT 19E)
Mannheim Germany
Ft. Polk
Ft. Gordon (29F with Full Maintenance Identifier)
Camp Coiner, South Korea
Stuttgart Germany
Worms Germany
Ft. Huachuca
Camp Coiner, South Korea
Ft. Huachuca
Camp Casey, South Korea
Ft. Hood
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SSG (Join to see) , what is a hardship tour?
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1stSgt (Join to see) - It's where you PCS for a year, but are not allowed to bring family.
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SSG (Join to see) - Ok. USMC speak = unaccompanied tour
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SGT Cryptologic Linguist
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A lot, especially considering I was only in for five years!
- BCT at Ft Leonard Wood
- AIT at Ft Gordon
- few months Reserve time at 304th Civil Affairs Bde in Philadelphia, went active duty
- DLI at Presidio of Monterey
- AIT at Ft Huachuca
- CEWEOC at Goodfellow Air Force Base
- finally, permanent party duty station at Ft Hood
- JRTC at Ft Polk (blech)
- Camp Commanche, Bosnia (deployment)
- ETSed from Ft Hood
But my husband was still in (and by now I'm a DA civilian), so...
- first son was born, moved in with mom while he went to Korea unaccompanied
- Ft Riley (deployment)
- Ft Jackson (drill duty, ugh)
- Ft Riley (deployment)
- Ft Carson (deployment) - TDY to Leonard Wood for me
- Edinboro University (ROTC instructor)
- Schofield Barracks - TDY to Campbell for me
- RETIRED! back to Ft Carson
- And now moved to St Louis where the kids/grandkids are

Lots of NTC rotations (more him than me, obviously)... Field time probably adds up to a year or three... He's had a bunch of TDYs. I've done more TDYs as an Army civilian than I did as a Soldier. I *think* we've spent more time together than apart, but maybe not.

And a bunch of in-town moves mixed in. Hopefully only one more move for us once we figure out what we want to be when we grow up! ;)
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CDR Jon Corrigan
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14 PCS moves in 24 years (four in first five years, as first two ships both changed home port). Six deployments, but lost track of the number of 70-88 day at-sea excursions. TDY's in the dozens.
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While in the military, how many different duty assignments did you have (counting TDYs & deployments)?
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I lost count early on and hit the "Point of no Concern". I know we were married about 5 years before we hit the more time together than apart mark. I do remember post 911, I scarfed up enough air miles to go premium on two different airlines.... by March. I do remember that airfare for one TDY totaled $18 grand by the time I got home. My profile shows the major assignments but I'm sure it's typical for a 32 year career. My air miles kept piling up when reserves as I'd travel about twice a month for my Fed job and 1-2 for reserves. Always a drill somewhere and an ADSWs to keep meeting mission. Really got interesting during my PACOM years, especially going on loan to State or riding the Blue Ridge as 7th Fleet Engineer.
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Edited 9 y ago
9 deployments, 12 assignment, but all in one county.
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As a Marine grunt, I was able to transfer between grunt billets on Camp Pendleton and MCRD San Diego. I did 4 MEU's, 2 UDP's, DS/DS, OIF and an unaccompanied tour to Oki. I was stationed at NAS North Island, MCRD SD, MCB Camp Pendleton. On CP, I was with ITB, MCT, AIT Co, 1/1, 1st LAR, 1st Supply Bn, MCB.
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In 20 years (and still counting), 8 PCS in 5 duty stations but 36 total months in Iraq, 7 in Bosnia, 10 in Korea....as for TDY, one year I had over 180 days of total TDY travel as part of my job.
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SSgt Jim Gilmore
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In 7+ years of active duty I had 7 PCS assignments 4 TDYs. This includes a PCS to both Thailand and Vietnam. One of the TDYs was FROM Vietnam to the Philippines.
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SFC Dennis A. 11 PCS and counting, 1 combat deployment, various training and TDY's to include schools
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Wow I only PCSd 3 times
3 combat deployments
3 training rotations to Germany/Poland
7 TDYs.
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15 years and only 3 PCSs..
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PO1 Brian Austin
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PCS'd duty stations 9 times, with 2 in Japan and 3 in San Diego where i didn't have to physically move. 7 deployments and 10 TDY's or so (including schools).
The family loved Japan, fun times.
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