what do men really do when they are on deployment and have liberty.?

Question

What do they do in a foreign country, when they're on deployment and have free time on their hands?

Answer 1

If you are deployed and have free time I can assure you it is spent doing one of three things, eating, sleeping or writing home. I am sorry if that doesn't sound fun and exciting enough for you but that is the boring truth. When you are deployed to a war zone your priorities seem to change and the basic needs in life become more important than partying.

Answer 2

The last time I was in a foreign county, my squad and I (LCpl's and below) did what most 20 year olds would do. We stopped by the Grand Hotel, got a few beer, and chilled out. Later we walked to a Chinese restaurant (never knew one would be in Africa). After the restaurant we walked like 4/5 miles to the market to find some stuff that the states might have but only cheaper. Upon returning from the market we tried to buy a carton of ciggarettes for $8 (we got it). On our way back to the hotel we found a bar and got more beer. After a few beers, I went and asked the bartender for a ********. Being that we had less then 20 mikes to get back to the hangar, it never happened. Kinda boring really. I was going to buy me an African wife but $20 didn't get me that far.

Stateside: we get a hotel room, fill it with booze, find some girls, and we have a little party.

Answer 3

What free time? Most people work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year when deployed. It's not like they work 9-5 and get weekends off.

If my husband gets a few minutes free when he's deployed, he sleeps or finds a phone to call home.

It's not like past wars where the soldiers have the freedom to go out to the local area and meet people, drink, hang out. They aren't allowed to leave the bases, so there's really not much to do unless they're at a place like Camp Anaconda, where there's fast food restaurants and a movie theater.

Answer 4

I'm guessing your man is in the military and you are worried about what he is doing... hehehe. My guy is NAVY. He spent a lot of time sleeping because he worked seven days a week, maybe 6 once in a while if he got lucky, and really long hours (12-14) sometimes more. But he would sleep, eat, call me if he had phone card minutes, or he was lucky to have Internet and would get on-line to talk to me. He didn't want to do anything because he had a money saving goal he wanted to meet, so he didn't spend money buy going out. But a lot of guys go out and drink. I would say alcohol sucks up a good bit of their money. And there are a few nasty boys that get hookers. The guy the lived across from my boyfriend always had a hooker. If it's your man in the military and he's gone, you just better be able to trust him. My boyfriend said it was mostly the single guys getting hookers, but he said there was this one married guy who got one every once in a while. But he was an ****** and in the process of a divorce anyway.

Answer 5

Pusan, Korea - Went shopping for clothes and goodies, ate good Korean food, had a few beers, and passed on the birthday B-girl the guys had bought for me.

Singapore - Went shopping for clothes and goodies, ate good food, had a few beers. Also went to the Raffles Hotel for a Singapore Sling (a drink !!).

Hong Kong - Went shopping, walked the waterfront, had a great meal, and a few beers.

Jeb Ali, UAE - Played volleyball in the sand, ate BBQ, and had a few beers. Also went on a scuba tour and a camel ride.

Freemantle, Australia... cruised the yatch club looking a the nice sailboats, went sailing, then went drinking.

Hobart, Tasmania... went hiking and then went for a few beers and a nice meal.

JUST FYI, I have never gotten lucky on deployment

Answer 6

In over twenty years in the Navy, I have been to 32 countries, some more than once (stationed in 3). When I went on liberty, I seldom went with anyone. Before I hit the streets, I learned some phrases in the local language: PLEASE, THANK YOU, HOW MUCH, WHERE'S THE BATHROOM, etc (I usually had a back pack and carried my own toilet paper). I wandered through shops, tried out what little of the language I knew, met folks, bought some local foods that wouldn't spoil.
I would try some foods in restaurants that I'd never eaten before. I would take tours that the ship had set up. Only once did I go to a bar (since I've been married) and talked to a woman there. That's because one of my troops had been there and told a girl there that I had been stationed in Sardinia and that's where she was from (about 15 miles from where I lived, I later found out). Since we both spoke Sardinian (a dialect of Italian) and I understood her local dialect (there are several in Sardinia), we talked for a bit and I got some info about where were the best places to go. We shoook hands and I left.
I have gotten lost (that's always interesting) in Barcelona, Spain; Doha, Qatar; Toulon, France. I thought I had gotten on the right bus to go to Nyali Beach in Mombasa, Kenya until a local sat down next to me and asked where I was headed. When I told him, he informed me that instead of going NORTH the bus was going WEST...to Nairobi! We got off in his village, waited in his friend's cafe and he put me on the bus back to Mombasa. In all my travels alone I've never had any trouble. I corresponded with an Israeli Army officer that I had met in Israel for years until I got a letter from his sister informing me he had been killed.

Answer 7

Libraries, museums, cultural events, and that sort of thing, would be my guess ! Heck, that's what we did in the Marine Corps when we got liberty after being away from civilization for months at a time ! What's your guess?

Answer 8

Free time(if he they ever have it)
- Try to catch up on much needed sleep.
- Use the computer or wait in hour long lines to use the phone to talk to family and friends back home.
- Watch movies, listen to music.
- Try to escape reality for a little bit and unwind.

Answer 9

In Iraq, I mostly read books, watched DVDs on my computer and chatted on the Internet.

In other countries I used every chance I had to play tourist. (A couple of bouts with diarrhea made me real careful about what restaurants I ate at.)

Answer 10

In Iraq, husband plays cards, does karaoke, get on the computer and talk to me. Eat. Sleep. Things he doesnt get to do much of when he is working.