Why would 1 soldier have so many deployments? Is this normal?

>>32475288
Not normal but no uncommon

>>32475288
because he's a psyco or a pog

>>32475288
>publicizing something this bad for morale

jesus christ

>>32475288
This was not terribly abnormal in the early GWOT.

'member stop loss? They did that because they didn't have enough bodies. Active soldiers were getting rotated back to deployment with minimum home time.

>>32475330
Airborne patch, so I doubt he's a POG.
Out of curiosity how common are psychopaths in infantry?

>>32475288
Nobody forced him to reenlist.

>>32475355
Psychopaths are more common in POGs honestly. The 11B career field is full of dumb jocks or bronies.

>>32475330
Or maybe hes got fuckall waiting for him back home and doesn't want to go

>>32475288
He's probably the main character of a modern military videogame just let him do his thing.

>>32475346
Given their growing diversity quotas, muh womyn in combat units, and trannies being A-Okay now it's not surprising that there are retards in all layers of the DOD and the services themselves to publish that kind of demoralizing shit.

>>32475355
>Airborne patch, so I doubt he's a POG.

you do realize airborne units have plenty of pogs as well right?

>>32475288
If he's single with no dependents, he's fucking rich as shit now.

>>32475355
>Airborne patch,
>so I doubt he's a POG.
kek

>>32475355
Airborne tab is unit designated. The tab is attached to the unit patch.

101st is not an airborne unit and doesn't jump, except for a few LRS, recce, sniper, etc. sections.

Also, airborne isn't really special.

>>32475369
Not true at all. Theres tards everywhere. And smarties everywhere. But I trust an infantryman over all obviously.

>>32475288
>Why would 1 soldier have so many deployments? Is this normal?

It is normal for an infantryman to go on 1 deployment every year.

When you get to a unit, you perform an entire circuit of pre-deployment training with that unit, then deploy. Then you come back home and pick up more new guys. This cycle takes up about 1 year of total time, maybe more if Army infantry.

Then you complete a circuit of pre-deployment training with that unit, then deploy. Then you come back home and pick up more new guys. This cycle takes up about 1 year of total time, maybe more if Army infantry.

Do that six more times and you'll have 9 deployments. Guy in pic related has been in the infantry for what, 15yrs? A lot of his early deployments were non-combat deployments, and the rest were combat deployments. It's his job. He goes on deployments all the time. It's been 15yrs. Of course it's normal, his entire job is to deploy.

I hope this makes sense and explains it adequately

>>32475288

B/c a) each deployment to the Sand Box is generally 6 months, b) he decided on being a soldier as a career so he's trying to do his full 20 or more, and c) even dudes who only do 4 and out the door often have two or even three combat deployments under their belt before they give Uncle Sugar the finger and GTFO and using their GI Bill to scam on 18 y/o coeds and shit

>>32475288
Normally, its 2-5 depending on your length of service, but if you keep re-enlisting, you can end up with more. Assuming 3 per 5 year enlistment, that is a pretty acceptable number. If he doesn't like it, he should refrain from re-enlisting or he should get extra training so he gets to stay state side.

Also, let it be known that "psychopath" is the edgy way to say "complete autist"

And the "complete autist" is lurking behind every blade of grass

>>32475346
It's as if they're trying to convince politicians that GWOT was a bad idea

>>32475288
my count is 7 deployments for myself

Only 4 of them are complete though,

Others are as replacement or being replaced due to injury.

That doesn't includes various NATO/UN peacekeeping shit where we do it and throw the medals in the bins.

For interest:
Iraq 05'
Helmand 07'
Helmand 09'
Helmand 10'
Helmend 11'
Helmand 14'

However our deployments are no longer than 8 months, as short as 4 but an average of 9.

Throw in Northern ireland, riot duty, snatch squad and other stuff. which i can't give dates for for obvious PERSEC reasons.

Before you ask why i got so many dits in short time its because of volunteering for casualty replacement lists and a shortage of people in my role.

>>32475663
average of 6 months my bad.

Got the accumulated service medal though for 720 days cumulative service.

>>32475288
Because he made the military a career.

Don't worry he sit most of his deployments in a 2 man can, and doing COC watch.

Nearly everything is done by lower enlisted. The Army calls it the E4 Mafia. In the Marines it's called the Lance Corporal underground.

>>32475705
Good for you man, we appreciate you. I'm glad you've found where you fit in the world, stay safe out there.

>>32475749
>stay safe
every damn fucking time someones said that to me i've been fucking hurt

>>32475383
We both wish that was true, unfortunately we both know his childhood sweetheart wife is at home spending his money on fancy meals with his best friend/her lover ... them feels man, them feels

>>32475765
>friend/her lover
Jodie?

>>32475383
Even if he made $40k/year, hes banked a max of $600k. That's not exactly rich.

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>>32475770
Fucking Jody

>>32475761
This is why theater people say "break a leg."

>>32475807
not exactly fucking poor though is it?

>>32475376

Bald guy can't be the MC, he's the third or fourth dude who joins your crew after he saves your ass from a tank with a well timed rocket.

>>32475355
>Airborne patch, so I doubt he's a POG.
found the civilian

>>32475663

Any good stories? Assuming bong, anything different from 'muricans? What's your opinion on it all?

>>32475807
600K plus whatever he pays off with other pays plus dat considerable retirement package he's working towards is a good chunk of change. If he plays it right he can retire at 20 or 20+ whatever is convenient for pay bumps and never have to work again. Bast pay plus allowances (BAH if he's got a property or a rental in CONUS) plus HFP and CZTE add up.

The overall package is complex but ask any retiree who had their shit together. It's quite nice to retire in your thirties or forties and kick it the next several decades.

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>>32475985
I consider Airborne guys my friends. I know one.

>>32475288
>that complete look of defeat

>>32475288
This stuff is why I don't understand this constant flow of american people wanting to join the FFL.
US armed forces pay very very well, and you can get really good opportunities as it seems.

>>32475439
>I hope this makes sense and explains it adequately
It does, thank you.

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>>32475372
imagine being this lost.

>>32475807
600k with 11b benefits is a pretty decent chunk of change to live on for a good while as long as you're not retarded.

Of course, since he's in the army, he'll probably blow half of it on a brand new truck, four-wheeler, side by side, and boat as soon as he gets out.

>>32475761
if you can't be safe, be dangerous

>>32476331
The face of an adult at work.

>>32476725
>99% of the 11b/19D population
>having money after year 1

I was only at fort hood where everyone over 18 years old was a clinically depressed alcoholic or a bipolar maniac, but literally none of these people are intelligent enough to know they could have walked away after 3 years minimum active duty time with over $50,000 in their pocket

they buy the jeeps, boats, etc day 1 out of basic and pay it off til they rank up enough to actually make profit

>>32475355
>>32475434
You can see his CIB and wings.

>>32475288
Sometimes you just don't have anything better to do and like what you're doing. Plus them deployment bucks!
I did 2 peacekeeping tours, 3 in Afghan and 2 in Iraq. By the time I left there where guys I knew who went downrange 8-9 times, but my cycles in between deployments where broken up with either training, training other people, injuries, changes of command or the odd junket trip of going overseas and training other people.

>>32476331
more like
>can these reporters take a pic and fuck off already
>been waiting to jack it in the portables all fucking day

>>32475288
Can't say that face looks too happy.

>>32475379
I'm pretty sure being on so many deployments is more demoralizing for that guy and other soldiers than making people aware of it.

In fact, civilian ignorance of what the troops are going through is kinda one of the things that soldiers always talk about hating.

>>32475761
Go be a dangerous mother fucker then

>>32476873
Yeah, those are called badges mate. Doesn't affect your unit patch. Airborne tab is only unit patch, not personal.

Personal tabs are Ranger, Sapper, Presidents 100, Special Forces.

>>32475807
Hopefully he's been investing it in real-estate or a 401k or something like that and has a small bank account but a ton of growing investments.

>>32479382
>investing it in real-estate
I sure as fuck hope not because we're on a housing bubble right now

>>32475288
At some point, the CIA will have to kill him, because he's going to be a football bat when he gets out. Eventually, he'll find a cause, and somebody's gonna pay.

>>32475663
>Helmand '09

american jarhead here. ya'll were some cool dudes. didn't spend much time at leatherneck/bastion, though. did the big push south and stayed there till it was time to wait for the bird back to carolina.

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>>32476873
Those probably aren't jump wings. Like 9001% sure. Everyone at 101st is airassault. It's mandatory to go to the school there.

>>32477434
Yeah, but were you Army? Soldiers do a year, while Marines do 6 months, generally. Over that amount of time, it really matters.

>>32476873
Air Assault wings, yes. Only reason the 101 has an airborne tab still is because of the heritage.

>>32479493

Marines' deployments are 7 months unless you're on a MEU, which is 6 months.

>>32475663

>Helmand 10'
>Helmend 11'

Where? I was a grunt Marine in Sangin and the Upper Gershek Valley in 2010-11.

>>32479493
Former Australian army, most of our tours are 6-8 months

>>32475362
>Nobody forced him to reenlist
>what is stop loss

>>32476790

This is not as easy as you think it is. I needed alcohol to survive fort hood. Nevermind the political bullshit, there was so many other things that went wrong over the course of those 4 years. You just expected nothing to get better and everything to get worse. Even the dudes that shipped off to SF selection said they'd rather do SF training 12 times over than come back to our unit, which was full of AWOL meth addicts, gangbangers, rapists and alcoholics.

My section leader was on deployment 8 when I was on my boot deployment.

Spent 4 of those 8 in Iraq and he'd been in since 1999, if you're an infantryman or in some combat MOS you typically deploy a lot

>>32475288
Back in 06, I was deploying with guys who already had three deployments.

One of those guys is at seven, and another is at 10 (he went to group).

The guys who deploy a lot usually have these markers.
>love their job/combat, usually more latter than former
>hate their spouse/family etc.
>love their family/spouse etc.

These days if you are reenlisting, and not a retard, you can select a duty station that is not likely to deploy. That is, if you want it.

Whether you deploy for shits&giggles, escaping a shitty wife, or just for that juicy combat pay, it is all the same. A personal choice.

>>32475288

stupidity

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>>32476581
Yeah, I can't imagine that. How terrible.

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>>32475288
Hey if you want non-stop deployments you can always sign up as ADA. For some salty NCOs that has pretty much been their life. 14S and 14G can pretty much do non-stop deployments downrange for CRAM. Unless you can sent to Korea, in which case do yourself a solid and an-hero or go AWOL before you get sent to 2ID.

>>32475439
Short trip deployments were a 101 staple for a bit when 6 months meant 3 month dwell time. There were two or three task forces stealing my parts at any given time before everything got built up over seas, and one of them was always a 101 or 160 short trip where they didn't plan for losing an engine past the replacement itself and had to scramble for tools and parts that tend to get damaged when the turbine goes. (stupid little sensors, switches, circuit breakers, new airframe panels that take some time and tooling to fabricate on the spot) I don't really feel bad for anybody and loved every minute I got paid extra for doing fun shit with less paperwork; if you don't like the job then quit and move on to a career that keeps you in town. Deployments made the military worth it for me and most of my peers, plus it was fun most days and the bad ones got you a cool story.

>>32475985
>found the civilian
>civillian

Found the cod player turned real life G.I. Joe. Jesus christ we get it, you're a "warrior".

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>>32479483
some people reference the bullwinkle as wings, it's obviously a given due to the unit.

>>32476331
>When you wanna get together with the squad but then you remember that would require readjusting to civilian life

>>32475663
marine?

>>32481155
Lans Carpool

>>32475765
>>32475813
and people wonder why I hate women

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>>32475434
>101st is not an airborne unit and doesn't jump
>101st AIRBORNE

Wait why the fuck

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There was a Ranger who had 14 deployments before he went to Valhalla

So, not terribly uncommon

But, OP tempo and deployment tempo for Batt is much faster from what I hear

>>32475330
see
>>32475413
>>32475382
These guy is right

However I believe you can see a CIB just poking from his PC

>>32481188
muh history

>>32481325
Wait

wait no

where is my (you)

what the fuck did hiroshima do

>>32479438
He's not John wick hes allegedly a POG with a military career

>>32481103
And they wonder where all the hate comes from

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>>32481188
They're Air Assault now. Which is arguably more useful in today's environment. The only reason 82nd is still airborne is muh tradition and the argument that we have to preserve the technical knowledge for some reason. Ya know, in case there's a time warp and we have to fight WWII all over again.

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>>32481188
>>32481401
shhh, only dreams now.

the 82nd exists because all the SFAS drops need somewhere to go

>>32481401
air assault is still useful but overdependence on helicopters is going to plague the army for years to come. everyone thinks they're gonna do some ninja shit and fly to the x to shoot faces, but in reality it's also a good way to get killed by some guy with a HMG in a camouflaged bunker.

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>>32481401
>>32481453
They're going to reduce the amount of standing airborne units even more. For the last few decades however airborne school is just another stepping stone for careerists, and a perk to be given out. Effective leadership tool really, plus if someone has the nuts to jump out of a plane, yadda yadda elite fighting force.

Static line still exists for helos too.

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Relatively common the longer a soldier had been in, in my experience. It's actually worse for reserve and national guard units as they didn't have regulations technically preventing that.

I say technically because commanders could just use their discretion to tell soldiers to fuck off and get ready to go back to the sandbox. While most units had a rotation of prep for deploy, deploy, and cooldown, soldiers would often PCS during that cooldown period into the start of a deployment period.

>>32475288
15 years and he's an E-7 still? Explain.

>>32482093
he is a combat leader who enjoys slaying bodies.

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>>32475288
5 more years and he's got that pension in the bag.

>>32482105
What you become an E-8/9 and ride a desk until they kick you out?

>>32481417
That eagle looks like it's having an orgasm.

>>32482115
>E-8/9
you stop kicking down doors.

>>32482093
Sergeant First Class is the ideal rank for enlisted soldiers. First Sergeant and above is all about politics above soldiering, and it's essentially only sought after by soldiers with families outside their platoon.

I asked my First Sergeant why he elected to leave Ranger Batallion as a Sergeant First Class and his response was he had too many kids to be an SFC anymore.

>>32482077

me in back

>>32476376
>constant flow of american people wanting to join the FFL

they just think it sounds really cool, they'll never do it

>>32476155
Loads, Bong indeed.

Anything different from americans?
Yep we don't actually blue on blue. JK 6 month deployment works out better, you get 2 weeks leave to take into the deployment, which is nice, A year is too long, I've seen so many Americans snap, burn, and break. Saw a US soldier bayonet a dog for tugging on some loose webbing.

Opinion:
On what? the war?

>>32479451
>>32479690
>>32481155
Never really down in one place, been sangin,kajaki, lashkar, musa qala cowboy town,

We were flying all over the place due to being D-RECCE. so we went wherever shit was tough.

Army, IC OPMI - RECCE

>>32475288
Maybe he just wants to go on deployments, why is this such a bad thing?

>>32482108
Is secret squirrel ded?

>>32479839

Stop loss wouldn't put some poor sap on 9 tours. Buddy here probably volunteered or requested to be put into a position where he would be sent on tour, for most of them.

Lots of men are war junkies, love the chest decorations, and the war stories which get them laid until they are well into their 40's

>>32481028
hows living with your parents treating you?

>>32483641
are those easy to gut and clean for the fur? :3

>>32485727
ahaha yup! :3 lol

>>32475663
Your unit been fucked by our omnipotent overlords at the MoD for Army 2020 yet?

I just deployed a fart

>>32485766
Status report

Is that a publicity campaign for the new Die Hard film?

>>32485766

SOLDIER, IDENTIFY, THAT HOSTILE, SMELL, DETECTED BY, MY, NOSE AT, 2 YARDS

SOLDIER, HOSTILE, SMELL, IDENTIFIED AS, ONION, KATCHUP, GARLIC, EGGS

>>32485825
>Arma in a nutshell

>>32479438
>he's going to be a football bat
sorry, what?
>>32483641
it's cool, he made it.

>>32475330
Not really man. I mean maybe for your average dude, but career combat arms guys, especially when you get up to Rangers, SF or other JSOC units are pretty damn common to have that many deployments, if not more if they have been active during GWOT.

I was only in 2003-2015 and had 8. Definitely not psychotic or addicted to war.

>>32485765
We were among the first in 14' now part of ISRB.

>>32481525
Jump school is a fucking joke. I went over the Summer while still in school/ROTC and ended up drinking/partying more while there than I was able to back at the military school I graduated from. Given once I commissioned I did end up in a line of work where it made sense to have the school under my belt, then was quickly relegated to operations and power points, at which point I said fuck the Army because if I'm not shooting motherfuckers I might as well make 3x the money for my powerpoints in the private sector.

Wish I would have just enlisted desu famalam. Even if you're a "good" officer you are still looked at as a do-nothing shitbag by the enlisted guys and even if you are lucky enough to have an "active" deployment you are rarely the first one through a door or up near point when shit goes down. That and you are surrounded by true shitbag officers who have no business planning ops or going out on missions in the first place.

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Astartes on his 900th deployment reflects on spending only 9/10th of his 500 years of service to the Emperor on the battlefield

>>32486940\
I don't know shit about the 40k universe other than those guys are bad ass space crusaders. How the fuck do they live so long?

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>>32486902
Should have stayed around and went SF or resigned that commish and gone warrant desu.

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>>32486959

Genetic enhancements that turn them into 8ft tall supposedly biologically immortal rape machines

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>>32486832
>He's not addicted to war

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>>32486978

>>32487013
>>32486978
10/10 would sign up for

>>32475288
Kind of hard to imagine if you didn't call home a lot or get out when you're back stateside how much the world changed in that amount of time.
I pretty much didn't read any news in training or watch tv for like 6 months would hear everything second hand days or weeks after it happened. Can just imagine after a deployment or two all the fads changed, missing out on memes and the major opinions that form around them and reactionary counter opinions.

>>32486961
I really thought about it, but I didn't exactly get along well with "management" as is. Very little patience for incompetent or self-righteous dickbags who were seemingly doing their best to get people killed or smoke them over insignificant shit. I was dropping packets for all types of schools and programs and consistently getting them shit on by people I had previously crossed. tbqh famalam it all worked out well enough, making more money than the Army would ever pay me and have a couple kids.

>>32475355
no mil no guns detected

>>32476239
this is very true. If he has a shit load of deployments and actually contributed to his TSP properly instead of that lame shit they tell you to do on deployments to earn an extra $100 at the end of your tour, then he could retire comfortably.

>>32486978
>>32487013
the IP and art on that franchise is still amazing.

>>32479853
There is a reason that Fort Hood supplies more inmates to the USDB than any other military installation.

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>>32487144

It's pretty much the last uncucked franchise along with Battletech and a couple others.

>>32480610
As former ADA I can attest that this is complete BS. ADA is the least deployed career field. I was originally a 14R and have a lot of friends who reclassed to CRAM or Patriot and hardly any of them have deployed. I know multiple ADA E6+ who have never done a real deployment (Iraq/Afghan). Qatar/Kuwait/Korea don't count.

>>32475369
Every psycho POG I knew reclassified to cav or infantry. Or they were already combat MP's or combat engineers

>>32487179
>combat MP

>>32475288
>9 deployments in 15 years
>only e7
Choking Chickens everyone

>>32482093
Do you even Army? That's not even close to uncommon in any way.

>>32486978
makes ya wonder why we aren't doing this IRL, doesn't it?

>>32487193
That's actually a thing there slick sleeve. It used to be an actual job back in the day. Combat MP unit's were MP unit's where everyone was 11B qualified. I think it phased out in the late 80's/early 90's though. Who the hell do you think taught the infantry how to do room clearing/CQB and mounted patrols?

>>32481176

No they don't you fat beta fuck lmfao

>>32475288
men will do strange things to get time away from their wives

>>32487224
Science isn't there to a extent where the gains would go anywhere near a fraction of the costs to get them, and I think there's some laws against required surgeries/doping.

>>32479853
Ft. Hood is the reason I roll eyes at nasty girl comments on NG infantry units. The two NG units I was in had much better professionalism and cohesion. 9 deployment guy needs relief either way, big army consistently fails to realize that is has a huge pool of reservists and guardsmen chomping at the bit to redeploy. Guys who double dip during deployment like cops, and dudes generally fucking sick of pushing paper at their jobs who just want a year off from the humdrum

>>32476581
He isint lost, its just that where he belongs only exists in war. Pontificate on that.

>>32481028

Go sob into your pillow you worthless virgin fuck

>>32475355
you wanna see mine?

>aviation
>not pog

OH SWEET! i gotta call my bros and tell them were not considered pog's anymore.

>>32475355
>airborne
Civilian confirmed.

>no tabs
Pogue confirmed. And it's "pogue", you fucking stupid faggots. POGUE.

>>32475355
>Airborne patch, so I doubt he's a POG.
>pog
>patch = not pogue
Kill your fucking self

>>32488054
>>32488118
Goddamn you must be a fucking 1171.

POG = Person Other than Grunt

Pogue is the phonetic pronunciation, but this is the internet and we are on a Ghanaian Hydro-Electric Simulator, so we generally spell words the way they are written, not pronounced.

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>>32488569
POG is a backronym that came prevalent with millennials and GWOTers that don't know any better.

Pogue was originally slang for homos and also appeared as 'pogey bait' for denoting luxuries not afforded to grunts.

Now fuck off kiddo.

>>32488689
you sure do have a lot of time to read up on 03 slang when you're a pog

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pog here just want to remind you infant tree men that i was enjoying those luxuries while you were taking a nap and slobbering off the back of an MRAP ramp in the desert

i thoroughly enjoyed my green beans coffee and burger king, thinking 'wow i dont have to do that stupid shit'

then i realized i worked a thankless bitch job where nothing you do matters

>>32488859

But rolling through the desert haphazardly lobbing mortar rounds at shit was the best time of my life. Why would I want to trade those memories for shit that I can do stateside?

Lob mortar rounds at hajjis = hero
Lob mortar rounds at people back home = domestic terrorist

>>32475288
>get deployed
>shoot brown people
>no one cares
>go home
>do job applications for LEO work
>see on the news about cops shooting brown people and getting crucified for being racist even if its black on black
>renew deployment instead

>>32487966
Congratulations!
Also inform all your hispanic friends they're honorary whites.

>>32489070

my only memorable moments consist of humvees falling apart on the backroads because we forgot to put the wheel studs back on after fixing them