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Re: DUmmies Discuss Combat Tours
« Reply #25 on: June 04, 2013, 12:07:20 PM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on June 04, 2013, 12:00:46 PM
Thankypu gentlemen! So it would have been possible for someone to do 8 tours, if they were 90 days deployments each

If they were a trauma surgeon or the most hard-luck medium truck driver in the entire Air Force, yes.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss Combat Tours
« Reply #26 on: June 04, 2013, 12:09:54 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on June 04, 2013, 12:07:20 PM
If they were a trauma surgeon or the most hard-luck medium truck driver in the entire Air Force, yes.
ok so length of tours depends on service, position/and or rank.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss Combat Tours
« Reply #27 on: June 04, 2013, 03:00:39 PM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on June 04, 2013, 12:09:54 PM
ok so length of tours depends on service, position/and or rank.

Yeah...service and job are the big determinants.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss Combat Tours
« Reply #28 on: June 04, 2013, 03:46:38 PM »
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Re: DUmmies Discuss Combat Tours
« Reply #29 on: June 04, 2013, 05:18:45 PM »
Quote from: Texacon on June 04, 2013, 03:46:38 PM
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Re: DUmmies Discuss Combat Tours
« Reply #30 on: June 04, 2013, 09:18:54 PM »
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Re: DUmmies Discuss Combat Tours
« Reply #31 on: June 04, 2013, 09:25:51 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on June 03, 2013, 01:42:01 PM
Eight tours in Afghanistan since 2008.


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Re: DUmmies Discuss Combat Tours
« Reply #32 on: June 04, 2013, 09:36:58 PM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on June 04, 2013, 06:15:02 AM
A question, cus i honestly don't know, but how long is a tour and is it different time lengths for each branch, or assignment?


Quote from: txradioguy on June 04, 2013, 07:02:06 AM
Varies by branch.

Absolutely.  It's a deployment, not a standard tour at some installation on PCS orders.  Could be a month or two or, it could be a year.  Units are rotated into a combat zone, not individuals anymore, like Vietnam.  The Repo Depots went out (thankfully) a long, long time ago.  The end date of a unit deployment is generally at the discretion of the theater commander (I think  :-) ).
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Re: DUmmies Discuss Combat Tours
« Reply #33 on: June 05, 2013, 01:15:52 AM »
Quote from: 98ZJUSMC on June 04, 2013, 09:36:58 PM

Absolutely.  It's a deployment, not a standard tour at some installation on PCS orders.  Could be a month or two or, it could be a year.  Units are rotated into a combat zone, not individuals anymore, like Vietnam.  The Repo Depots went out (thankfully) a long, long time ago.  The end date of a unit deployment is generally at the discretion of the theater commander (I think  :-) ).

Our tour lengths are set IIRC by Big Army.  The whole "not to exceed XXX days".

When I got sent to Iraq in 2003 we left on six month deployment orders...which got extended to 12 months.  At one point during the surge units were there for 15 months.  Afghanistan was 12 months though the Army has cut tours back to 9 to save money on sending people home on mid tour leave.

Marines have been 7 month tours for both combat zones since the beginning....the Zoomies do 6 months and who knows what the navy does out there at sea  :-)  But I believe their Sea Bees and Docs do 6 month tours.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss Combat Tours
« Reply #34 on: June 05, 2013, 08:56:08 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on June 03, 2013, 09:39:47 PM
No, that was nadin's old outfit in Mexico.

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Re: DUmmies Discuss Combat Tours
« Reply #35 on: June 05, 2013, 09:27:13 PM »
Quote from: txradioguy on June 05, 2013, 01:15:52 AM
Our tour lengths are set IIRC by Big Army.  The whole "not to exceed XXX days".

When I got sent to Iraq in 2003 we left on six month deployment orders...which got extended to 12 months.  At one point during the surge units were there for 15 months.  Afghanistan was 12 months though the Army has cut tours back to 9 to save money on sending people home on mid tour leave.

Marines have been 7 month tours for both combat zones since the beginning....the Zoomies do 6 months and who knows what the navy does out there at sea  :-)  But I believe their Sea Bees and Docs do 6 month tours.

My first deployment in 2005 was SUPPOSED to be 12 months, but about a week before going home, we got extension orders for 90-120 days (172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, for the lurking DUmmies that want to question it). Ended up being about 15.5 months. We generally consider ourselves the first unit of the surge.
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