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Can anyone explain besides length of time that sailors are gone what the difference is between underway and deployment?
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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An underway is any time a ship leaves the pier, can be a week, can be for months at a time. Drills, exercises, sea trials, and deployments are all done while underway. The term is often used for the short departures. They don't really "go" anywhere.
A deployment is a specific mission to a specific region, with port calls and exercises along the way. These last 6 to 10 months on average. Subs have a different type of deployment schedule. Air squadrons also deploy, they go to a carrier or to an overseas base. Anytime a unit goes overseas for a specified length of time to do a specific mission, that's considered a deployment (SEALs and SeaBees).
An individual sailor going overseas is not being deployed, they're going PCS or TAD/TDY or IA.
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Permalink Reply by UrabissWife on
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and underway can be from a week to 2-3 months, if they port somewhere else beside their home port, they still stay at the us (im pretty sure). they only do that if somewhere needs something from them other than that they just go sit out in the ocean and do repairs drills and all that fun stuff. my friends husband leaves once a month .....deployments are way longer and they go to other countries.
then you have the air crew who go on DETS (detachments) they stay on US soil also but they typically fly to airforce bases and they will be gone a week to 1-2 months also. sometimes they fly out to the ship and do drills. -
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