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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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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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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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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