Deployed Soldiers question?

Question

What do deployed soldiers do on free time / no missions or fighting...
Where do they sleep?
What do they eat?
How do they shower?
any other info on being deployed...

if you are in / were in the military (preferably army or marines) could you plz tell me how ur deployment was, and your average day on what you'd do and go threw

(Im joining army active duty military police)

Answer 1

Hey, I'm an MP currently. I guess it all depends on your mission over there. If you have certain missions you are not going to have a lot of free time. Our free time that we did have was spent either playing video games, cards, watching movies, sleeping, or just relaxing. You could even do a little PT here and there. Some places have internet/phones in your unit's area now so you can spend your time on either of those. If your unit doesn't have them you can go to the MWR tent and wait in line there.

Sleeping wise, at some places they have connex's that have bunk beds in them. In others you have a cot that you sleep on.

For eating it all depends on where you go. Sometimes you will be stuck eating a MRE (meal ready to eat) or you may have a dining facility right on your FOB.

Showering is done different in different areas as well. Some places have connex showers and some don't. Sometimes the Engineers will build you a wooden shower with a water tank attached to it. I guess you could say the location you are in really dictates how you will do all of this stuff.

Good luck in OSUT and welcome to the MP Corps!

Answer 2

I'm an ex-Army Engineer, honorable discharge WAAAAY back in 1990.

#1, when I was deployed, we had no free time. Woke up around 5 a.m. worked my *** off until around 9 or 10 p.m. 1 guard shift during the night.
#2, Sometimes I was able to sleep in my truck, sometimes in a small tent.
#3, the food is not that great, make sure it gets cooked well if you have the chance, otherwise cold MRE's were awful. (I did manage to get some 'free-time' when I was med-evac'd out with food poisoning--VERY relaxing)
#4, showers are a luxury you will miss very much, A was able to smuggle a field shower in my truck on 2 misssions.
#5 Are you set on becoming an MP? You will be sent to battle most likely. I chose Army Engineers to get a 'workout' of mind & body; although the body got a bit more of the workout. I served overseas, and busted my *** EVERY day. I came away with a lot. I learned a lot. I was able to see & do things I never would have otherwise; but again, I busted my *** EVERY SINGLE DAY! Even days spent back on post were at the very least 12-14 hour days.

Answer 3

I was in the Navy during the First Gulf War. I did go on "boarding party' missions with the Marines. We rode helicopters and rapelled down ropes to inspect foreign ships for contraband, such as weapons.

We slept in racks while aboard ship. A rack is a bunk bed, they're stacked three high.
But when we weren't at sea, we slept in barracks, which are more like a motel than what you may have seen in old movies. There's only three men to a room, it's not one room with rows of beds.
We ate at a Mess Hall. Don't lose your meal pass, they check to make sure you have a meal pass when you get on line. If you get "commuted rations", that means you give up your meal pass for the money it costs to serve the food, which is like $17 (seventeen dollars) a week, so it doesn't go to far if you eat at McDonalds. I took commuted rations for a while because the base I was on had the mess hall and the barracks about a mile and a half away from each other. There was a McDonalds on base only a half mile from the barracks, and there was a Pizza restaurant across the parking lot from the barracks.
Sometimes I would go off base and stop in a Publix or Food Lion supermarket. And I'd bring back breaded chicken cutlets, or "chicken fried steak", and heat it in the microwave at the barracks. I also had a rice steamer in the barracks, but I wasn't supposed to.
While stationed "State Side", meaning not at sea, I had every third day off, which is called "Liberty"in the Navy. I usually rode my Mountain bike about 65 miles on my days off. (That's how come I was in good enough shape top go with the Marines on those helicopter missions). I had my F-150 pickup truck on base too, but I rode my bike to save gas and get exercise. I painted out all the chrome on the truck and the bike with Navy camoflage gray paint.

Answer 4

I was in Army Special Ops, and did security for all branches in Nat.Security. and Intelligence. During the "off" times, we
played cards, played ping-pong, wrote a letter home. If it was
a long enough period, we drank some beers and cooked on
open flame (BBQ). Cleaning your fireArms and taking inventory on ammo and supplies was always a good thing.
we slept on cots in tents, and during fighting we stayed low to the ground. Once a grenade was tossed into an officers tent
and killed two and the other three were severly wounded. At night you slept lightly and never lit a flame If you smoked, you
kept it tucked into the palm of your hand. Enemy Snipers would tak a head shot on you if you had a smoke in your mouth or if you lit a lighter. We didnt have anything shiny or reflective of light and we stayed away from idiots who did.
The stinch of war will never leave you, the smells, the sounds,
the death; killing was tough at first, but soon you are so filled up with fear and anger that it just becomes what you do, you have to remind yourself it is your job and not who you are.
I don't know how they got it, but sometimes someone would
show up with a bag of weed and it eased the mind a little, but
you did not dare take too much because your life and your buddy's life hung in the balance, you have to keep a level head at all times. To look your enemy straight in the eyes and then denie him a last breath or word. You know in your head
that he would do the same to you if given the chance. I think it was best said that War is Hell. Politics dont win a War, War is
won by the number of lives given and the number of lives taken, Modern Tactics will never win another war; If we want to take Iraq or any other godforsaken country, we have to go in and kill them off and clear them out. Only then can you reEstablish a governing body and return the people to their cities and homes.

Answer 5

Good for you! I mean that.
The answers to your questions change according to where you are deployed. Even within Iraq, things change. Some troops live in a tent city. It has A/C most times, they have cots, eat hot meals every evening (MRE's when out about) and as for free time, they get some that they spend emailing home, listening to music or even some bring along hand held games. Some live in trailers. They are pretty nice. Two to four in each room. A lot of them have a TV and even a game system someone sent them. Some have very rough conditions, living out of their hummer, sleeping on matts on the ground.

Also know, just because you join the Army does not mean you will deploy. You could be sent to any number of post here in the US or to Korea or Germany. The have to have lots of support troops here to keep the bases going.

Thank you for your decision to serve our country.
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Answer 6

well we read, write letters, play cards, games, jog, exercise, we sleep in our tents and shower in a shower tent and we eat in a mess tent I'm in spec ops and i was never home always gone some are good deployments some are bad but you learn from each one and every day is different from the other take care

Answer 7

we have either tents or trailers to sleep in...most places have dining facilities to eat or you are brought food or mre's to eat....we have shower trailers and heads/latrines/bathrooms...your down time consists of pt, movies, sleep, writing home, stuff like that....

Answer 8

Before you join into the globalist military, do your research on our government. Follow the money, and you'll arrive at the truth.

http://physics911.net/ is a great place to start.

Real patriots do their research and help to solve the REAL problems in any way they can. Don't be another mindless sheep-man who dives into the crossfire and adds another "oh well!!" to the globalist list of fatalities. They don't care about you; You're their cannon fodder. Don't ruin your life, bud. : )