What is a deployment?

2015-05-01T07:25:33-04:00

Is responding to riots in Baltimore a deployment? Germany? Okinawa? Africa? Justify answer, provide rationale.

Response by CSM Private RallyPoint Member made May 1 at 2015 7:41 AM

2015-05-01T07:41:10-04:00

verb (used with object)

1.

Military. to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.

2.

to arrange in a position of readiness, or to move strategically or appropriately:
to deploy a battery of new missiles.

verb (used without object)

3.

to spread out strategically or in an extended front or line.

4.

to come into a position ready for use:
the plane can't land unless the landing gear deploys.

Response by Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS made May 1 at 2015 7:46 AM

2015-05-01T07:46:43-04:00

You're stationed somewhere. Your unit says "We're going somewhere else, for a little while."

You go there.

Response by SGM Private RallyPoint Member made May 1 at 2015 7:51 AM

2015-05-01T07:51:01-04:00

Any where you are sent for an extended period outside of your normal duty station

Response by CH (MAJ) William Beaver made May 1 at 2015 8:25 AM

2015-05-01T08:25:27-04:00

Rear D feels like a deployment when you are Chaplain for 2100 Soldiers and families PLUS families of the deployed Soldiers

Response by SSG Kenneth Lanning made May 1 at 2015 9:38 AM

2015-05-01T09:38:29-04:00

Deployment would be an individual or group movement to a place where hostile fire is likely, or performing a peacekeeping function; Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa, Bosnia, Somalia, Kosovo...list can go on.

Although it falls under this category, going into my 11 year old daughter's room to make sure she cleaned it doesn't TECHNICALLY count...

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made May 1 at 2015 10:06 AM

2015-05-01T10:06:20-04:00

Based on what this post is asking, and the answers you are giving, you are playing a semantics game. The question in general is vague.

Each Soldier is assigned to a particular unit, and that unit is geographically located in place A. If they move to place B for a mission-related purpose, they have deployed. Whether that is to the field for an FTX, or whatever, they have deployed. Now, what the military deems necessary to put in the Deployment section of your Record Brief is their call, and their decision.

Response by SGM Mikel Dawson made May 1 at 2015 10:18 AM

2015-05-01T10:18:50-04:00

We all got our typical thought of what deployment is: going to Tim-buck-too. But I'd also consider individual deployments -
going to school where I had to pack my gear, report and be there for a while?

FTX - Well I guess it is really a deployment exercise?

Stationed one place and sent to another TDY - deployment, you had to pack up and go.

Different rules for different deployments, pays for zones, danger, time all that stuff.

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made May 1 at 2015 1:08 PM

2015-05-01T13:08:44-04:00

For the Guard? Yes, it is not ADT time. The Guard is doing what it was designed to do.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made May 1 at 2015 4:57 PM

2015-05-01T16:57:20-04:00

MSG Morgan Fiszel, CPCM, CFCM,

If you're required to go through SRP (Soldier readiness processing) in order to be sent to a place where you're not allowed to bring your family and will be receiving hazardous duty pay and imminent danger pay, you're deployed.

Response by Lt Col Jim Coe made May 1 at 2015 6:46 PM

2015-05-01T18:46:28-04:00

To move forces to a location from which the Joint Force Commander can employ the force. (Paraphrased from Joint Pub 1)

Response by PO1 John Miller made May 2 at 2015 4:12 AM

2015-05-02T04:12:52-04:00

In the Navy I always considered a deployment anything that awarded the Navy & Marine Corps Sea Service Ribbon (criteria for that award is 90 days away from home port).

Response by Sgt Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 14 at 2018 10:10 PM

2018-04-14T22:10:05-04:00

no, no, no, yes. The first one is a joke. Germany and Oki are duty stations. Africa is a deployment. I am here now