Basically its when a unit or a individual ( individual rarely unless you have a specific set of skills that is needed at that moment) gets shipped overseas for 6-9 months to complete a mission which is honestly just doing duty.
It is possible to have a instate deployment as well.
To be sent away from your home unit, normally temporarily (e.g., 6 months), often to some distant place, typically overseas, but, it could be a remote place in one's own country (e.g., Canada - Alert). Normally, one's family does not accompany the person being deployed.
Deployment: Temporary assignment away from your normal duty station. I copied this from another answer with a few changes: "Deployments can be an individual or a unit/command. You depart your duty station to go to another location or multiple locations for a period of time up to 12 months before returning to home base."
Deployments don't always mean over seas to a foreign country. Example: you could be in the Texas Air National Guard and get Deployed to Alaska for cold weather training for three months.
You could also get PCS Orders to a base in Germany for 2 to 3 years. This is NOT a Deployment it is PCS.
Deployments can be an individual or a unit/command. They department their duty station to go to another location or multiple locations for a period of time up to 12 months before returning home.
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It means you are going to a foreign country.
Basically its when a unit or a individual ( individual rarely unless you have a specific set of skills that is needed at that moment) gets shipped overseas for 6-9 months to complete a mission which is honestly just doing duty.
It is possible to have a instate deployment as well.
To be sent away from your home unit, normally temporarily (e.g., 6 months), often to some distant place, typically overseas, but, it could be a remote place in one's own country (e.g., Canada - Alert). Normally, one's family does not accompany the person being deployed.
Deployment: Temporary assignment away from your normal duty station. I copied this from another answer with a few changes: "Deployments can be an individual or a unit/command. You depart your duty station to go to another location or multiple locations for a period of time up to 12 months before returning to home base."
Deployments don't always mean over seas to a foreign country. Example: you could be in the Texas Air National Guard and get Deployed to Alaska for cold weather training for three months.
You could also get PCS Orders to a base in Germany for 2 to 3 years. This is NOT a Deployment it is PCS.
Deployments can be an individual or a unit/command. They department their duty station to go to another location or multiple locations for a period of time up to 12 months before returning home.
Usually "deployment" in the military means being shipped overseas for duty.
"Deployment" refers to activities required to move military personnel and materials from a home installation to a specified destination.