Just like when service members are at basic training, they will be very busy and may not have time to respond immediately. It may take several weeks before they are able to contact you. Once they do, they will be able to give you an idea of how frequently they can communicate and by what means. These requests may change based on their deployment experience, so stay flexible. Find out more about what happens during the predeployment phase for both service members and their families.
You can learn about the tasks, briefings and other preparations your service member undergoes before deploying at Plan My Deployment , a free online tool available to help military families organize and understand all phases of deployment. For an overview of other deployment resources, visit the Military Deployment Support webpage. And did you know that active-duty, National Guard and reserve service members also have access to free support services ranging from financial planning to professional counseling?
Learn more about available assistance when your Guard or reserve service member is called to active duty.
Still have questions or need help finding information? The appearance of hyperlinks does not constitute endorsement by the Department of Defense of non-U. The deployment cycle starts when a service member is notified of a deployment and extends through any predeployment training, the actual deployment, and reunion and reintegration. Every deployment cycle is different, but here are some general things to know:. Soldiers can deploy in large or small groups or even individually.
Many soldiers will do predeployment training at large training centers such as the National Training Center, the Joint Readiness Training Center or at specific training centers located at bases across the country. An average deployment cycle will include months of training at their home base and at these specialized courses.
Soldiers with specific skills may go individually or in smaller units. They will have different types of training requirements based on the job, their prior preparation and the location of the deployment. Learn more about Army deployments ». Many Marine Corps deployments happen on Navy ships, or service members may fly to their deployment location. The majority of Marine Corps deployments include approximately one year of training followed by six to seven months of actual deployment time.
However, a significant number of Marine Corps deployments may be scheduled for one year or more. The Marine Corps prepares to support a wide variety of missions, often on short notice. Deployment types include training exercises, force readiness, supporting ongoing missions and humanitarian support. Learn more about Marine Corps deployments ». Many Navy deployments are on ships or submarines.
Maintaining the Fleet Readiness Plan FRP construct of six aircraft carriers available within 30 days plus two additional carriers available within 90 days is a difficult task. Maintenance requirements on carriers alone make satisfying the FRP a challenging scheduling problem. By increasing the average cycle time for a Carrier Strike Group CSG to 27 months, the FRP requirements can be met continuously, after an initial maintenance adjustment period of 62 months.
During the summer of the Navy surged some aircraft carriers from their homeports to generate as many as seven of 12 carriers on station for Coalition operations. The ability to push that kind of military capability to the four corners of the world is quite remarkable and recent. Several years earlier, the Navy could deploy only two. Through this series of deployments, surge operations and exercises, the Navy will demonstrate and exercise a new approach to operations and maintenance.
Double-pump deployments occur when CSGs are deployed twice in an FRP cycle with little advance notice of the second deployment. A CNA study compared the first-term reenlistment rates of enlisted sailors who experienced both deployments in a double-pump CSG with those of sailors who experienced a single deployment in the same period. Holding constant other factors, the results showed lower first-term reenlistment rates for sailors who experienced both deployments in a double-pump.
The difference was especially pronounced for sailors with long initial contracts. Although the carriers in the CSGs completed both deployments of a double-pump, few of the surface escort ships did.
In total, only five escort ships took part in both deployments of a double-pump. The effects of officer characteristics on readiness were small compared with the effects of certain enlisted crew characteristics. For example, the percentage of the enlisted requirements that were filled and the percentage of the enlisted crew that had rotated into the crew in the last quarter had substantially larger estimated effects on material readiness positive and negative, respectively than any of the officer attributes.
In the period of , the Navy did eight double-pump carrier strike group deployments. At one point the Ike had gone out and deployed four times with only one maintenance availability between the deployments.
So that coupled with the significant reduction in the workforce at our shipyards, the Navy increased in seven years 10, workers back in order to handle the workload. At times the Navy was running days behind on submarine maintenance as an example.
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