Deployments...

[DavidBoren]

We have a thread for where you were stationed, but how about one for deployments?

Sept. '05 to Nov. '06... Kirkut, Iraq (FOB Warrior).
I spent the first 8mo out on a patrol base, FOB Barbarian, maybe... it didn't really have a name, but Barbarian got tossed around (no idea if it is in any way official). We decommissioned the patrol base when we left, gave the property back to the community as a police station. The last half of the deployment was spent 12 on/12 off guarding the Northern Oil Company fields.

Oct. '07 to Nov. '08... Tikrit, Iraq (FOB Speicher).
I was a "fobbit", working at the 101st TOC. Super lame, but I was stop-loss'ed anyways. I spent the last half of the deployment at some tiny FOB (Grizzly), training Iraqi police.

[wunderbarsafari]

Nov 05 - Dec 06
Ran out of FOB Rustamiyah in east Baghdad. Did a lot of different stuff around Sadr City.

Mar 08 - Mar 09
COP 803 on Rte Irish in west Baghdad. Did mostly raids there.

[DavidBoren]

No $#!+?

One of best friends was in Rustamiyah/Sadr City as a crane operator around the same time. He was stationed in Ft. Hood, but attached to a 101st unit at the time.

[Mr. Hick]

March 06- March 07. Afghanistan. Primarily based out of Camp Wright, Asadabad. Managed to do route clearance all up and down RC-East during the whole year.

[scottieb]

No deployments, just spent most of my stationed time in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

[Grendel]

5 Deterrent Deployments to the middle of the North Atlantic at various depths below sea level doing 6 knots to no where 1988-1991
1 Deterrent Deployment to the Mediterranean Sea 1994 plus chased around various hostiles at various times.

[Mr. Hick]

I did a lot of questionable things during my short time in the military but I will always stand by the fact that you submariners are out of your minds. Completely. There is no reason you can give me that even comes close to being sane as to why you would crab yourselves in a huge steel balloon with a nuke reactor on one end of it and then go and see what the BOTTOM of the ocean looks like.

[Grendel]

Honestly it never bothered me in the least. I will not say it was enjoyable but definitely tolerable. We were kept so busy most of the time that you really did not think about it. One of the hardest things for me to deal with was the fact we were culturally/socially in stasis when we went out on patrol. The world and people moved on while we were 'static' so always felt out of sync when we got back. The divorce rate for submariners was pretty high I expect higher then the regular navy and a big part of this I have always felt was due our "out of sync-ness" with our significant others. I never had a relationship, before I married, last long after me going out on one patrol.

I can not prove it but there are some health issues I have now that started manifesting themselves after I had been on Boats that I did not have issues with before. Anyone how has spent any time in the military has been exposed to conditions that were not good for our health. One of the things we sacrificed as part of serving.

[Tracker]

Dec 02- May 03 Ahmed Al Jaber AFB Kuwait, i actually was the last squadron ever deployed in support of operation southern watch, we then started Operation Iraqi Freedom

[Paintslinger16]

DoD civilian deployment count?, I will delete if you all oppose.
BAF, May 15- Oct 15 During RS, I work for DLA, WIA during This my first and now only

[DavidBoren]

No problem with DoD civilian deployments... as long as you're not Blackwater. I got beef with those Blackwater mercenaries... had to clean up too many of their messes.

[Dangermann]

2013 Afghanistan, Kandahar and Tarin Kowt , Guntruck gunner
2020 Currently Arifjan Kuwait , Haulin anything and everything

[Deltasteve]

DoD civilian deployment count?, I will delete if you all oppose.
BAF, May 15- Oct 15 During RS, I work for DLA, WIA during This my first and now only

I hate that the veteran community has decided to become so "gatekeep"y that people feel the need to qualify what they say.

[DavidBoren]

Military is full of "badge protectors". Some elitist, superiority complex BS. The NCO's with EIB's judging the EIB qualifications are a prime example of this behavior.

I suppose I am guilty of it, too. I was all butthurt when they started giving POG's CAB's, because I thought it cheapened the prestige of the CIB. Lol.

[Paintslinger16]

I just wanted to be clear I wasn’t a veteran, in the mil / vet forum. I work for you guys, and 100% respect for all you do and did.

[Nofuzzqtip]

US Army, 2018 in Kandahar Afghanistan, as an infantry line medic.

[Readytoshoot527]

Thank you everyone for your service!

[Nectaris]

Almost deployed to Somalia in 1993, we were waiting in our barracks but the buses never came.

[Flounder]

91-95 stationed out of Groton CT. Went various places around the globe, did things I am still not allowed to talk about, most of it spent out of sight under the water.

[Deltasteve]

91-95 stationed out of Groton CT. Went various places around the globe, did things I am still not allowed to talk about, most of it spent out of sight under the water.

DADT is over, you can tell us now Flounder.

[Paintslinger16]

91-95 stationed out of Groton CT. Went various places around the globe, did things I am still not allowed to talk about, most of it spent out of sight under the water.

spend any time at Rosie cantina? I had a class at the sub base (rotten groton) some years ago