Question about Navy careers.?

Question

Are there any specific Navy careers that do not deploy overseas? I want to enlist, but am afraid of leaving my family behind.

Thanks

Answer 1

No one will be able to guarantee that you will not deploy. I have been out to sea on a submarine, but I have never been to the Middle East. The longest I have ever been gone at one time was 4 months. Some people will deploy longer than that, and I have met people who have never once deployed away from their home station....ever.

Now it just depends on you, what are you afraid of? Do the benefits outweigh what you percieve to be the cons? If so, go for it. But if not, then maybe the military lifestyle is not for you. You can also try the Navy Reserves, but then again, you MAY have to deploy with a Reserve unit depending on your job. I will say that for the Reserves the Military Police (MA), Intelligence Specialist (IS), Construction Battalion (CB's) and the Hospital Corpsman (HM) are almost gauranteed to get deployed on almost a consistent basis. For the other jobs your chances of being deployed are extremely low.

Answer 2

As a new recruit it is very slim that you will ever go overseas during your first 4 years. You will go to a ship and you will deploy for 6 months at a time. The chances of you going to shore duty are also slim for your first enlistment. Going to sea is no big deal and the 6 months really does fly by. If you want a career in the military the Navy has the best options for staying with your family most of the time. If you are not deployed you will be at home with your family. You will be underway on and off all the time, but it will be a few days here and may be a week or two there. That is the job of the Navy, being deployed or getting ready to be deployed. The Army, AF and Marines all have a huge role in Iraq with bases. The Navy may deploy there, but it is on a ship in the gulf. You will have a warm bed to sleep in every night. You get to eat whenever you want to and it is real food. You can work out in the gym and can sit in a chair instead of on the ground and you have TV and internet access. All with AC and heat. Not the other guys, they all get to play in the sand and then go back to a trailer or something. Eat MRE's if they are on a mission and life in general sucks for creature comforts. Do you really want a service where you have to wait for some volunteer group to mail you toothpaste and goodies? The Navy is the way to go and you get paid really well if and when you deploy and you always get sea pay which is extra pay just for being on a ship. Can't beat it. If you are considering the military at all there is something not right with your quality of life now with your family. We are both in the Navy and love it. We make tons of money, own three houses and are getting ready to retire at age 37 in just three more years with full benefits. What other job can you retire at 37 with full pay and benefits? I can't name any. JUST DO IT.

Answer 3

There are no Navy ratings that do not get stationed overseas. I was stationed with 2 personnelmen who, right after A school, were assigned to PSD in Yokohama, Japan. They did their first enlistment there. You could be sent almost anywhere as a new recruit after your A school. You're afraid of leaving your family behind? Depending on the duty station, you can have your wife/children join you if there is housing available or if your command will sponsor them to be able to join you.
The only time I did not have my family with me at an overseas duty station was when I spent 13 months in Antarctica. They were with me at 2 of my 3 duty stations. The one they were not with me was when I was single and in Viet Nam.
(USN, retired)

Answer 4

Sounds to me like perhaps the Navy Reserve is for you. That's only a weekend job, with two weeks for active duty. So far as I know, active duty Navy is always subject to tours overseas, whether in a war zone or not. I was Navy for 6 years. The first year was boot camp and schools. Then, 2 years on a destroyer. Then, 14 months as a river rat in Vietnam. (Was supposed to be 2 years, but I was wounded and sent home early). Then I finished up on a shore station in Newfoundland. The only time I was near home was when I was on leave.

Answer 5

Being a Navy Vet...Stay out! I you become a Sailor, you representative the Greatest branch of the military. YOUR job is go protrol the oceans and seas of wrong doing. The Navy is not a ride to ask to get off when you wish.

Answer 6

Do yourself a favor and don't enlist, if you are that much of a coward and mama's boy. We need people that are willing to SERVE, not folks that just want to mooch off Uncle Sam.

(And contrary to what some others have said, RESERVISTS AND SEABEES DO DEPLOY. We just sent 40 Seabees - ALL Reservists - to IRAQ, and they are just another round of deployments in a long line of Seabees that have been to Iraq).

Answer 7

none whatsoever. EVERY rating deploys.

if you are unwilling to do what is required of you by the Navy, than don't enlist. you don't get to pick and choose where you go and how long you willbe gone, you go where you are needed, plain and simple.

Answer 8

No, none, zip, nada.

Join the Coast Guard because if you can't run with the big dogs you should stay on the porch with the pups.

PS. SeaBees do regular overseas rotations, just like everybody else.

Answer 9

Do not enlist in the Navy unless you and your family are prepared for extended periods apart.

Answer 10

Military deploys!! (Even the Coast Guard) Thats part of the job.