Do 9-month overseas rotations qualify as ‘deployments’ for the Army’s ‘deploy or get out’ policy?

The army doesn’t have a ‘deploy or get out policy’. It does have a policy that soldiers who are medically non-deployable for >12 months be separated from the service unless granted a waiver.

When they say “deployable” they mean Soldiers that can be deployed at a moments notice. Not necessarily meaning if you haven’t deployed you get it. Just means you have to have your medical records straight and no issues preventing you from going on a oconus tour.

I think they mean these also as deployments, because you need to be trained, medically cleared to go on these 9 moth what ever you call them. We as in Navy and Marines call these deployments period does not matter Combat or not. The purpose of these deployments in our eyes or floating around is to be mission ready to respond to anything form Combat, HA/CA and missions other then war.

I believe as Army does more of these, not exactly Germany, but Africa as many are deployed there, they will be called deployments. The problem is Army was normally a stay on their home base type organization, meaning places like Germany and Korea, but as we have pulled more units out, they have to deploy back there form US to conduct presence training and taring in that AOR and then redeploy back. Notice word deploy used a lot. Sorry again as this is coming from a Navy guy that every time we leave out to another area, we count as deployment.