What is a deployment?

MSG Morgan Fiszel, CPCM, CFCM — Fri, 01 May 2015 07:25:33 -0400

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

CSM Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 01 May 2015 07:41:10 -0400

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

Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS — Fri, 01 May 2015 07:46:43 -0400

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

SGM Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 01 May 2015 07:51:01 -0400

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

CH (MAJ) William Beaver — Fri, 01 May 2015 08:25:27 -0400

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

SSG Kenneth Lanning — Fri, 01 May 2015 09:38:29 -0400

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

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 01 May 2015 10:06:20 -0400

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

SGM Mikel Dawson — Fri, 01 May 2015 10:18:50 -0400

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

SPC Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 01 May 2015 13:08:44 -0400

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

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 01 May 2015 16:57:20 -0400

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

Lt Col Jim Coe — Fri, 01 May 2015 18:46:28 -0400

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

PO1 John Miller — Sat, 02 May 2015 04:12:52 -0400

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

Sgt Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 22:10:05 -0400

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