Army Nurses Stationed / deployed

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical, Informatics.

For any army nurse in this forum, if you have ever been stationed / deployed somewhere, how long was it and where? what were your experiences like?

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Specializes in critical care: trauma/oncology/burns.
For any army nurse in this forum, if you have ever been stationed / deployed somewhere, how long was it and where? what were your experiences like?

Hi

Currently deployed Afghanistan, last deployed 2 years prior to Iraq

Now ANC is deployed from 6-7 months (not including my pre-deployment training)

Current duty station Fort Bliss, been there ~ 4 years, due to PCS.

Deployment? Everyday is ground hog day, everyday is different. I have seen too much blood, too many deaths.

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Specializes in EMT, ER, Homehealth, OR.

First deployment 15 months with the Army Reserves and last one 6 months with Regular Army. From what the Nurse Corp Branch has stated in Captains Career Course all Nurse deployments will be the length that unit is deployed if you are a PROFIS fill. For those who do not know PROFIS is the Armys way of filling slots in deploying units by pulling nurses from hospitals, clinics etc. Most deployments are now 9 months in length. As Athena has stated it is like groundhog day but everyday being different somehow.

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Hello Army nurses,

Questions about deployments length. I am 110% I wanna serve but I'm debating with which branch of our military to chose. What's that I hear that I could be deployed from 6mo to 15mo the length of the entire squadron deployment?

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And also I'm interested in Active Duty now and maybe later join Reserves. But do Reserves get deployed on the lengthier side of AD?

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Specializes in EMT, ER, Homehealth, OR.

right now most deployments for active duty is 9 months and reserves is 12 months. Most reserves are on a 5 year cycle for deployments and active duty can deploy after being home for 1 year. As always subject to change based on the needs of the Army.

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right now most deployments for active duty is 9 months and reserves is 12 months. Most reserves are on a 5 year cycle for deployments and active duty can deploy after being home for 1 year. As always subject to change based on the needs of the Army.

Thank you for detailing this.

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