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My little brother is going for the navy seals and has been training for it for almost a year now. If he makes it into the seals, how often will he actually spend time were he is based?
We live in Virginia and i now if he becomes a seal he will try and get based here, so him wondering how often he will actually be back in his home state and for how long. Thank you.
Hi Nick,
SEALS are front-line, special operation forces for the Navy. That means they deploy (a lot). They go anywhere the Navy needs special operations capabilities, at any time (often with little or no notice).
While it's impossible to say for sure, because it's impossible to say what missions his unit would be tasked for, I would say that he can expect to be deployed away from his unit of assignment for *at least* six or seven months out of the year (not all at one time). That's the nature of special operations.
Some deployments (missions) may only be for a day or so, and others may be for several weeks or months.
Hope this helps!
Rod Powers
http://usmilitary.about.com
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Rod Powers is considered one of the premire experts about U.S. Military career information on the planet. He has more than 30,000 articles about U.S. Military career information on the About.com U.S. Military Careers Information website at: http://usmilitary.about.com. Additionally, he is the author of "ASVAB for Dummies," "ASVAB AFQT for Dummies," (available in Dec 2009), and "Veteran Benefits for Dummies," all published by Wiley Publishing. He is also the author of "Barrons' Guide to Officer Candidate School Tests," published by Barron's Educational Series.
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Rod Powers is a retired Air Force first sergeant, with 23 years of active duty service, 11 of those years as an Air Force First Sergeant. He has helped thousands of military members, recruits, and military applicants since he took over the About.com U.S Military Careers Information site in 1999. He has a reputation for "telling it like it is," so questions may not be answered based on "what you want to hear," but will be answered based of the bast available information, concerning the service/situation.
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Rod is a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Noncommissioned Officers Academy, the Air Force Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy, and the Air Force First Sergeant Academy. He also holds an Associates Degree in Personnel Administration from the Community College of the Air Force (CCAF).
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