Posted on Sep 8, 2017
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Or to ask it another way, how do you deploy if your unit isn't deploying?
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Edited 7 y ago
Prepare for a roster list of "When I deployed, we were just told!"

You can click the "volunteer" button on HRC; which as far as I can tell does absolutely nothing, I've had it clicked for near a decade and haven't heard a peep. No, there isn't an Army-wide list they just pull people for, to answer your question directly.

Your best solution, far as I've seen others actually be successful at, is to talk to your career counselor and neighboring units. Someone, somewhere will have a slot that isn't advertised on MOBCOP for whatever reason, and put you in it. Takes a lot of networking.

Reality is, Army isn't struggling for people to deploy, Active has everything well in hand right now-- especially as the mission over there isn't even a tenth of what the manning was a decade ago.
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you can be a volunteer thru HRCs website.
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Edited 7 y ago
I was asked if I wanted to go TDY by my detachment SGM. I said yes,
2 weeks later I was in Saudi Arabia for desert storm
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Some guys have all the luck :) When my SGM asks questions like that its for a teaching rotation. Which I'm good at and all, but not what I'm looking for.
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I don't know about luck. they worked my ass off there. But Since I'm a REMF I had a blast putting stuff together making it work. Never worried about much with the exception of Driving in Ryahd
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