Navy deployment?

[jupiterinka]

Can anyone tell me how long those in the navy typically get shipped out for? Are they literally away half the time? How much do they actually get to be home?

[harrisonsdream]

it really depends on where they are going, what their job is etc. my hubby is gone for about 3 months give or take though some rates in the navy go for a year because they're deployed to iraq/afghanistan/etc, others are gone 6 months. it all depends

[=Mrs.AiNokeA=]

Originally Posted by harrisonsdream it really depends on where they are going, what their job is etc. my hubby is gone for about 3 months give or take though some rates in the navy go for a year because they're deployed to iraq/afghanistan/etc, others are gone 6 months. it all depends

[dannysgirl004]

It just depends. Sometimes it is 3 months sometimes it is up to 9. Since Jan of 2005 including all the month dets my DH has had to do I think He has been gone over a year or more. So that would average out to about 1/3 of the time.

[MontanaSweetie]

It varies depending on a variety of factors, if he's on an Aircraft Carrier or a smaller ship or sub, if he's doing IA, etc.

My husband's longest deployment was 7 1/2 months while he was in the Navy. But, they did months worth of carrier quals and dets, so all that adds up to in addition to the actual deployment.

While on sea duty, expect him to be gone a good majority of the time.

[Kris]

I agree with the other girls it just depends. I had a friend who's husband had not shipped out in the 7 years he had been in the navy and dh has been in for 31/2 years and has been gone for almost 2 years of that, off and on (2 deployments) and workups and boot camp and all that

[Traci]

I depends. Mine is gone ALOT. Right now for 7+ months. The longest was 10 months. This is my 6th big deployment in 16 years.

[Taressa]

mine is gone all the time on sea duty, shore duty he was home the entire time but that vary much depends on his rate, the longest deployment his ship did was 9 months he only did 8 of those. it also depends on the type of ship he is on as well. some of them don't go out nearly as often and some are gone all the time. after every deployment though they have to get requalified so they are in and out doing that as well. most of the time with the smaller ships they are in for a month then start going back out again, sometimes they go into the yards but its not right after the deployments everytime. sometimes they go from stand down to yards but they don't always, we have friends that are on the same type of ship as my DH and he has been here over a year longer than my DH and he has been home WAY more than mine has since we got here in april and has been gone quite a bit over 12 weeks i think.

[~April~]

I know hubby's ship either does a 6 month deployment (crack pac) or a 7-9 month deployment (west pac)...they haven't done any surges..from what I was told that is anything less than 6 months. this is our first deployment coming up and I am not looking forward to it...especially not with 5 kids.

[CoffeeGirl]

dh has done 6 & 7 1/2 month deployments