Originally Posted by
Mox Nix
Stateside isn't really a deployment....that's called "TDY". I got a good chuckle once hearing a fighter guy talking about his SQ's "deployment" to Red Flag.
Just a matter of perspective
When it involves a 12-hour/7-AAR Coronet pond crossing with three different tankers to get there, and then it lasts for 65 days...it's a deployment.
BTW, no fighter guy is considering that deployment as an AEF square-filler.