Deployments

[Marine78]

Hello, I am currently a Lcpl in the reserves. I was wondering if there was anyone to contact for deployments. My unit doesnt deploy ever. I know i showed go through my chain of command and I've attempted that but they just give me the run around. So I am reaching out to my fellow Marines.
Thank You

[Phantom Blooper]

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/forum.php

Contact this Marine he is a reserve Sgt...he may have some scoop.......

[Phantom Blooper]

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/member.php?54187-josephd

[josephd]

I'll go ahead answer on here....simple answer is No. While you're on contract obligation to your unit the only deployment you could go on is one that is offered through your unit. Your unit itself doesn't have to deploy for you to, it would just have to be a deployment passed down from your battalion/company.

If you wanted to deploy and do all the cool Marine stuff you should have gone active duty. Don't feel to bad though, there isn't any deployments going anywhere anyway so even alot of active duty guys aren't even going anywhere.

[josephd]

But to answer your actual question....yes, there is Marines/people you can contact to get on deployments but you will be laughed off the phone. Once your an NCO and coming up on the end of your obligated time then you can start calling/emailing these people.

[Marine78]

Thank you for your quick answers, could that potentially be one of my obligations when I go to reenlist?

[MunkyVsRobot]

Not sure if you have picked up a newspaper in the last year or so but OEF and OIF is still kaput they be sending small contingencies to iraq and aghan but it isnt some big push. And no probably not i dont know how the reserves works but how could they guarantee you a deployment?

[josephd]

Thank you for your quick answers, could that potentially be one of my obligations when I go to reenlist?

obligations when you reenlist?.....not sure what you're asking but the answer again is No.

You are not obligated to deploy and you can't request a deployment as a contingency to reenlist.

[MunkyVsRobot]

I dont know if the reserve side has monitors like the active side does if you were to try moving and switching duty stations there would be a possibility to deploy. Of course any movement to the new duty station would probably have to be paid for by you because you are only part time.

[USMC 2571]

Long ago and far away, there was a time when people just did what their units told them to do, and that was that. This probably seems incredible today.

[joseywales]

The other day you asked about changing your status to Marine. Only admin people can do that. But you can change your profile from that poolee info you have on it now, to a full profile, anytime you want to.
So give some thought to doing that, and worrying about deployments some other time. When your unit wants you to deploy, it will notify you.

[Marine1011]

My how things have changed. A lot of young people have great difficulty bending their will to that of the Corps.
:)

[MunkyVsRobot]

it is quite different but it is admirable at least he wants to deploy, im looking for the same thing who wants to go trough their entire Marine Corps career and tell people all they did was sit around and do nothing.

There are a lot of people who join the Marine Corps and try to avoid deploying like the plague.

[joseywales]

true, and yet a person could do his or her enlistment and do what the Corps wanted them to do, and still have served his or her country even if it was in the mess hall for four years. They still did their part. Our point was that you must accept your part as assigned and not try to shop around get a better deal for yourself to the point where you are dissatisfied unless you get what you desire. The old days of serving country and Corps revolved around country and Corps, but today they also revolve around individual. I know this seems odd to many nowadays and indeed it is a foreign way of thinking.

[PJones64]

Everyone knows us old timers are out of touch. But what probably caused some of these here posts is the original poster saying all he gets is the run around, like he's some kind of discontented shopper at K Mart trying to ask about a product. lol

[josephd]

I dont know if the reserve side has monitors like the active side does if you were to try moving and switching duty stations there would be a possibility to deploy. Of course any movement to the new duty station would probably have to be paid for by you because you are only part time.

yes, there is reserve monitors and that is who I was referencing when i said there is people/Marines you can call to ask about such things. In the reserves though they wont talk to you if you're a boot/new LCpl....these monitors work directly for MOBCOM and MARFORRES and put reserve Marines(NCOs) that are off contract on active duty billets, I&I staff, active reserves, and hot fills for deployments....

[josephd]

Everyone knows us old timers are out of touch. But what probably caused some of these here posts is the original poster saying all he gets is the run around, like he's some kind of discontented shopper at K Mart trying to ask about a product. lol

He gets the run around because I am sure his entire chain of command and other Marines senior to him have been asking the same thing and want to deploy also. Other than about 15 of us(all Sgts and SNCOs) at my reserve unit, no one has or probably will deploy. The reserves is kinda sad in this way now as no "leaders" have ever had the opportunity to really lead anything. I have a $hit load of Cpls and new Sgts that have no idea how to be a Cpl or Sgt because they don't get the opportunity to act their or flex their rank a bit.

If I had a dollar for every boot/junior Marine that asked me about getting on a deployment I would have a few hundred bucks in my pocket, literally.

[USMC 2571]

And just the practicalities of it, Joe---they can't send every unit overseas at all times, making sure everyone in the entire Marine Corps deploys. It's not going to happen. So the point was, I guess, to be content with what you do in fact have. Not everyone has a chance to be in a deployment situation. And yet the Corps still has to be run on a day by day basis, most of it routine, like any civilian entity.

[Phantom Blooper]

I have the upmost respect for the reserves and the Marines that serve in them.

If you joined the reserves it seems to me that you.. not to say all... had commitments on the home front.....school...job...family and different reasons....so my question is except for the above about leadership commitments.....or activated... why do want to deploy if you are a reservist?


If you joined to stay close to home?

[josephd]

And just the practicalities of it, Joe---they can't send every unit overseas at all times, making sure everyone in the entire Marine Corps deploys. It's not going to happen. So the point was, I guess, to be content with what you do in fact have. Not everyone has a chance to be in a deployment situation. And yet the Corps still has to be run on a day by day basis, most of it routine, like any civilian entity.

Oh I understand it, completely....I think another thing is alot of these kids kinda grew up watching/hearing about Marines in Afghanistan/Iraq and are trying to ride the coat tails of the OEF/OIF generation.

Back to the reserves thing though, I don't think recruiters are being truthful about what the reserves actually entails. Too many kids come in thinking they get all the opportunities and benefits as the AD guys, completely misinformed. And to be honest I really cant blame the recruiter, some of them just don't know(they have never been in reserves). And these wannabes/poolees need to do more research on their own.

I never once expected I was going to deploy, and to be honest didn't want to when I first joined my unit. I got extremely lucky with the opportunity I did though and completely changed my Marine Corps career.

[Collinsdelta]

Hello everyone, I'm actually new to the Marine Corp, currently about to hit my 1 year mark if that says anything. I'm about to graduate the school house as an 0231 and got attached to my unit, well I was wondering where I could go about looking for when I deploy and or where to? I was told by my instructors a black sea rotation is likely, but we couldn't find the exact place to look for future intel ops, can anyone direct me?

[Zulu 36]

Did you pass the section on OPSEC?

[Tennessee Top]

Missed the lesson on how to spell Marine Corps too. Maybe they don't teach that anymore. Although, one can always look at the top of this page when in doubt.

[MunkyVsRobot]

and why are you hijacking someone elses thread. and you probably wont for a while stand by to get faped out your first 6 months.