I've got a question about deployments , I hear they are 6 to 8 months on a carrier, are you on the carrier all the time for the duration of the deployment or is there a fair bit of liberty where you can visit foreign ports and say see the sights or your family? And how many years do you spend on Sea duty before you switch to a shore posting, and how long is that shore posting then? Sorry for all the questions, just trying to get all my facts right!
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Carrier deployments
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On average, while on deployment you'll get a port of call every month or so. Each port of call is about 4 days in length and you can expect to have duty at least one of the days in port.
The typical first sea tour is 3 years. You'll get about 2 deployments during your first sea tour.
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Depends. I once spent 144 days at sea without a port visit. Last port was Naples, Italy. Next stop was Norfolk, VA. Nothing in between but Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, water, water, and more water. At least we got to go flying. Poor non-aviator types were stuck.
http://www.uscarriers.net/cvn68history.htm
MasterBates
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3.5 Sea, 2 years shore, 2 years sea here.
Dude, don't make me up you one!!
I did 3.5 sea, 2.5 shore, 2.0 sea, 2.0 shore, 1.0 overseas tour, finish out career. There was transit time and sitting on my ass a lot in between sometimes.MasterBates
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Burn. You can retire out of Clownjetland. I'm just a reservist without a flying billet at the moment. You win.
True point!! Did you ever find out when the reserve weekend is?
MasterBates
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No, but I did talk to HRF today about my SELRES package. I'm not sure if being the Kat Kreator is worth much, but it can't hurt!
Next time you talk to HRF give him crap for missing my retirement ceremony and party for some BS work trip ...but also thank him for sending his wife. I'd rather talk to her anyways
Gouge for Conus based CVN's tends to run as others have said. Its a 36 month tour and you deploy for 7+ months. (Big Navy is pushing for deployments to average over 9 months) Don't forget that you aren't just gone for deployment. The 6+ months before you leave on deployment is spent mostly gone from home as well. CQ, JTFX, TSTA, COMPTUEX, ARP, Airwing... Then you come home, hopefully get a break, and maybe do that once more before you leave. Some people only do 1 cycle, others only spend 3-4 months home and go right back out, its the luck of the draw.
For FDNF, expect 2 deployments a year, every year. 4-6 months gone in the summer and 2-3 months gone in the winter. However you don't do any of in-out workups prior, unless the boat needs to re-CQ.
First shore tour is 30 months. After that it largely depends on your timing, quals, etc.
For FDNF, expect 2 deployments a year, every year. 4-6 months gone in the summer and 2-3 months gone in the winter. However you don't do any of in-out workups prior, unless the boat needs to re-CQ.
First shore tour is 30 months. After that it largely depends on your timing, quals, etc.
exNavyOffRec
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Interestingly enough out of all the deployments I have done, both pre and post 9/11 not a single one was over 6 months, don't know how that happened but it did.
One thing to remember is with nuclear powered carriers there is only so much EFPH, so long deployments now is fine, but the shutdown time will come, either at the expense of not doing training at sea, or having to adjust deployments later. I can tell you that it doesn't take much over a 6 month deployment to skew an EFPH plan.
