Army E3 seeking a deployment!

[rero360]

Check out Tour of Duty, there you can find units that are deploying who are looking for additional people to fill out their UMRs.

I will say this, I had a Soldier come to my company last month from Active Duty, he was looking to deploy. One of my many Majors was in the room and asked him his MOS, and then asked him if he would like to be a door gunner on a helicopter. The Soldier said "of course", that would be awesome, the MAJ made a quick call to a friend and the Soldier was put on that unit's roster to conduct SRP in a month right then and there.

[stormvet]

MP does not stand for Military Police, it means Multipurpose. They are some of the highest deployed soldiers in the US Army, it should not be a problem getting deployed.

As a NG MP I deployed to war, riots, fires, floods and MJ interdictions. My civilian job was for the state, got as much military time as I wanted. I would get gigs working at various post throughout the state for higher up military functions that needed MP’s for security, usually a weekend thing.

There is less opportunity for such things in the reserves, when I got out of the active Army I was in a reserve unit. We never did anything, no field time no deployments. I lateraled to a NG unit and it was much better, lots of deployments, drills actually spent in the field soldiering.