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During the first gulf war I was watching the news and the story was about an army guard unit in Shreveport about to get deployed, they had the cameras out while they were loading up, families there all boudeting , very touching scene, turns out they were being “deployed” to Ft. Polk for the weekend

My LANG unit deployed to Afghanistan in ‘02 after a one month stop at fort Polk for a crash course in combat readiness. And to address the OP, we didn’t hop a plane straight from the airport to an undeveloped base in Afghanistan. I’m not sure how it’s done now, but back then no one when into the Middle East without first passing through Germany for in-processing.
I’ve never heard anyone refer to an active duty assignment in Europe as a deployment. That’s not what “deployment” is and that’s not what guardsmen are used for. Those locations are already staffed by active duty personnel who are “stationed” there.

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Posted by northshorebamaman

Cochise County AZ

Member since Jul 2009

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Posted on 5/8/18 at 2:35 pm to Bailcracker

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I’ve never heard anyone refer to an active duty assignment in Europe as a deployment. That’s not what “deployment” is and that’s not what guardsmen are used for. Those locations are already staffed by active duty personnel who are “stationed” there.

When I was stationed in Germany in 2005 our local active duty MP company deployed to Iraq and were replaced with a PA guard unit. I don't know the official terminology but all those guys referred to their year in Germany as a deployment which didn't really bother me because they were unaccompanied and lived in an old open bay barracks.

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