once you are oversees(navy) is it true that you get to travel and aloud to see different places?

Question

and be able to go ashore when you are off duty. and how often do you get a change to travel around the world?

Answer 1

I was stationed on a ship overseas in the Navy for 3.5 years. Of course if you are on a ship and you hit a port where you are allowed liberty (freedom to go off the ship) you can see places. I was on a small ship that maybe stayed in each port for about three to four days. We were usually in three sections where we took turns staying on the ship for a full 24 hours of duty. If you weren't scheduled for duty you could leave. You usually have to leave with one other person that you have to stay with they whole time you are off the ship. My ship also didn't allow you to stay out over night in every port. We were required to come back to the ship at say midnight or 1am even if we didn't have duty the next day.

Answer 2

Yes, you can go ashore in a foreign port when you're off-duty, and there are opportunities to see different places. Problem is you spend months on a ship and then maybe a couple of weeks (if you're lucky) in a foreign port. That's why one of my friends from high school got out after four years. There's an old song with the lyrics "We joined the Navy...to see the world...and what did we see?...we saw the sea." According to my friend, that's a very accurate account of Navy life.

Answer 3

define overseAs. Stationed there permanently? yes, you are alLOWEd to take leave and visit other locales. You earn 30 days per year. When you can use those days depends on the ship's schedule. You absolutely need a tourist Passport to do so, however.

When deployed, depends on how often the ship pulls into a foreign port, and it also depends on the port. Some you literally cannot leave the pier, others you can go into town and shop, eat, have fun. How long you can stay is however long the ship is in the port.

My husband spent a month in Fremantle Australia, plus several other calls to places like Chenai India and Jebal Ali and Dubai for a couple of days at a time.

Answer 4

Interesting that you would ask the question that way. Never having been in the Navy (old army guy), but have spoke with many who have. The Navy is not unlike other branches of US military service. At just about any duty station except hazardous (Iraq, Afghanistan) you can pretty much go where you want as long as the military hasn't put it "Off Limits", and you have a pass. In some duty stations, you simply have your time off to do as you please.

The reason your question is interesting is; you asked it as if the military was a prison of sorts... Don't know about the marines, but most branches of US military are pretty relaxed about what you do on your own time.

Answer 5

During my 20+ years in the U.S. Navy, I've been to over 30 countries...some more than once...and stationed in 3. I have made friends all over the world and can go to 7 countries and not have to stay in a hotel. I 've been on 5 ships, 8 oceans/seas, 6 continents (including 13 months in Antarctica...72-73). I even got to meet a pen pal that I had back in 7th & 8th grades (she lives on Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean) when I was stationed on the Flag Ship for the Middle East Forces, USS LaSalle AGF-3 (back in 78 - 79).
(USN, 65-85, retired)

Answer 6

I don't know how deployments are working with the war in Iraq. I retired before that.

Before the invasion of Iraq, a typical deployment from the west coast to the gulf included two liberty ports on the way out, and two on the way back, and a few port visits to either Jabel-Ali, Bahrain, or Dubai, which were typically working ports, meaning that you did a normal work day on the ship, and 2/3 of the crew were allowed liberty after working hours, 1/3 would remain on the ship for security, in case of fire, Shore Patrol, and to get the ship ready for sea in case of an we had to pull out quickly.

Liberty ports included places like Singapore, Hong Kong, Pattaya and Phuket, Thailand. Penang Malaysia, Bali (before it became dangerous), and sometimes Australia. In liberty ports 2/3 of the crew were allowed on liberty with 1/3 remaining on the ship for the same reasons as stated before.

Answer 7

Overseas and allowed, yes when you have shore leave.