re: We are going to war.

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well to be fair Marines only do 4 month deployment cycles. they don't have the same capabilities of the US Army Infantry Brigade Combat Team.

so 2 Marine deployment is considered 1 Army combat tour. my unit from the 101st did 15 months in Afghanistan. that is like three Marine deployments.

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WTF are you talking about? “Four months”….LOL. I wish. A deployment is a minimum of six months…and are often extended to a year or more, depending on what’s going on. Our deployments are either spent on a ship or in country somewhere. We have a six month “work up” prior to all planned deployments. In between deployments, we spend weeks and months at a time all over the world training. I was army for two years prior to joining the Corps…Marines deploy differently than the army, but we spend twice the amount of time separated from our families.

Before you ask…0331/0341 then 0369. Besides my time as an instructor at the School of Infantry (B-billet) and 1.5 years as an instructor at SOTG, I never left the battalions. I saw my wife for maybe 12 months of our first four years married.