Need your help - deployment

[Idun]

Hey,

haven't been online for a while. But I've got a question about deployments.

Is there any limit of being deployed? I mean how often would a cpl/sgt probably be deployed?

I wonder because here e.g. you have to go home after 4 months, 8months the latest. I doubt it is the same in the British Army, so please help me?!


thanks in advance


Idun

[just_me]

I think it is around the 6 month mark at the moment and you would usually get a week or two of R&R in that time as well but I am ready to be corrected if wrong.

[Idun]

So.. you have to or should get home after this time?
Is there any regulation of staying home before going again? There is something like that in the US NG, that's why I ask.

Thanks a lot.

[MSI64]

Normal tours are six months with time off before and after, as for how many then that depends on your job.
Was deployed three times in 2 years so 18 months away in 24 months.

[madmakem0511]

tours normally 6 months, mine was 7.5 (don't ask bloody battalion politics)

but job dependent you can stay on and do back to back tours, this is obviously down to how stressful a job you have, you don't want to be doing back to back if operating in constant contact and trust me after 7 months you need a break, i have been back since november and am still finding it hard to re-adjust.

if your based in bastion or kandahar then it's a walk in the park, apart from the med sections hats off to those people the are putting the NHS to shame.

[bored_stupid]

if your based in bastion or kandahar then it's a walk in the park, apart from the med sections hats off to those people the are putting the NHS to shame.

Aren't most of them actually FROM the NHS?