Hi. My husband is looking to join the Army. My main concern is if her will be sent to Iraq after his tech school. Does anyone know what the probability of that happening is. Also how often once he is in will he be sent away from his family.
Thanks for any insight in to this matter.

90% chance he'll end up in Iraq, and be gone anywhere from 8 to 18+months.

my father spent 22yrs in the army and volunteered to goto everywhere war from vietnam,panama,somalia and desert storm 1, but never got shipped to any of them before he retired. so the chances are slim and the chances can be great it just depends on what his job is and if it is a necessity in iraq. as the army saying goes "hurry up and wait"

Whats his MOS? BIG determining factor in delpoyment, not the only one, But BIG.

My husband goes to MEPS next Thursday to enlist in the Army. His recruiter told him, if you join the Army now, you WILL go to Iraq, no question of MOS or anything else. If you are deployable, you will be deployed...

There's a high chance, yes. And anybody who joins the Army expecting not to go to combat, regardless if there's a war currently or not, is an idiot. But it's not an absolute that he will be deployed. There are still troops stateside that haven't been deployed yet and won't be. But yes, his chances are high.

Is there anywhere on the net that lists which AR/NG units have deployed? Actually I wouldn't be too upset at the prospect of being sent over (it's the risk you take signing up...and vet's preference wouldn't be a bad thing).

Thanks...

If he has a short school and has the Mos of repairman, he could go right away. f he needs to train to run a MLRS or Tank, maybe much longer. Takes time to run a multi million dollar peice of hardware. Not much training to shoot a thousand dollar rifle, nor do they care if you break it.

look there is a 50/50 chance he will go if he does go and he is in a maintance mos or a desk-joky mos he chance's of dieing are slim to none if thats what ur askin if he choose's a combat arms mos on the other had like infantry,engineer,military police,or bomb squad his chances are about 25 in 100 of dieing or less around every 9 hours a us soldier dies in iraq that is the statitics for how many have died the the tiem frame the war has been going on so yes he might be sent then he might not other than that he knows what he is gettin into when he joins it is part of the job i thank god everyday that got a chance togoto iraq and be infantry he might not htink the same way if he goes but if he does support him 100% of the way

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