Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families (2013) / Chapter Skim
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3 Characteristics of the Deployed
3 Characteristics of the Deployed
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, or has been specifically identified by his/her service as ‘directly supporting' the OEF and/or OIF mission outside the designated combat zone (e.g., US Air Force aircrew or support personnel located at an airbase outside the combat zone) " (Bonds et al., 2010)
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supporting the operations ranged from about 78% in the Coast Guard to about 90% in the Marine Corps. The proportion of senior enlisted personnel in those deployed ranged from 40% in the Marine Corps to about 62% in the Air Force.
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TABLE 3.4 Age Distributions and Mean Ages of Deployed Service Members, by Service Branch, as of 2010 Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, TOTAL, Age N N N N N N (years) (column %)
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SOURCE: Defense Manpower Data Center. The numbers of regular component and National Guard and reserve component officers and enlisted members by age are summarized in Table 3.5.
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(4.9) TOTAL 535,622 701,558 88,064 91,038 20,322 1,436,615 207,799 389,156 44,058 56,413 13,253 710,682 Mean 26.7 34.4 32.2 43.4 40.5 32.0 29.0 38.4 35.5 47.0 42.6 36.2 age NOTE: Entire file contained 2,147,398, but 78 had missing age, and 14 had missing pay grade.
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. In the regular component, 61% were married -- from about 55% in the Marine Corps to about 66% in the Air Force.
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a In contrast with the Army and Air Force, the Navy and Marine Corps do not have National Guard components. b N, number married in each group; % are cell percentages representing the percentage married in each group based on denominators in Table 3.1.
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The proportion in all branches and components who had dependent children ranged from a low of 28% and 35% among Marine Corps and Coast Guard reserves, respectively, to 53% in the regular Army and Air Force. In all services and components, 69% of those currently married and 11% of those who had never married had dependent children.
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a In contrast with the Army and Air Force, the Navy and Marine Corps do not have National Guard components. b N, number with multiple deployments within each group; % are cell percentages representing the percentage with multiple deployments in each group based on denominators in Table 3.1.
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TABLE 3.12 Mean Length of Deployment in Months, by Branch of Service and Component,a as of 2010 Component Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Coast Guard TOTAL Regular 9.66 6.00 4.89 7.21 5.29 7.52 National Guard 9.21 N/A 3.46 N/A N/A 8.00 Reserves 8.96 6.13 3.85 11.96 5.29 7.96 TOTAL 9.42 6.02 4.48 7.97 6.00 7.67 a In contrast with the Army and Air Force, the Navy and Marine Corps do not have National Guard components. Considering deployment length over time, Figure 3.1 displays a consistent pattern for Air Force and Navy personnel who maintained the lowest average length of deployments over the decade of operations.
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TABLE 3.13 Cumulative Deployment Length in Months of Multiple Deployers, by Branch of Service and Component,a as of 2010 Component Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Coast Guard TOTAL Regular 22.66 13.30 13.08 15.94 9.94 17.63 National Guard 17.35 N/A 8.89 N/A N/A 14.58 Reserves 17.37 12.08 11.19 21.06 9.32 15.23 TOTAL 20.88 13.14 11.95 16.38 9.65 16.90 a In contrast with the Army and Air Force, the Navy and Marine Corps do not have National Guard components. Potentially as impactful on health and other outcomes as the length and frequency of deployment is the time between deployments during which a military member can "reset" before going back into theater.
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. TABLE 3.14 Mean Dwell Time of Multiple Deployers, in Months, by Branch of Service and Component,a as of 2010 Component Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Coast Guard TOTAL Regular 20.37 22.46 21.95 15.76 15.86 20.40 National Guard 26.21 N/A 21.08 N/A N/A 25.53 Reserves 21.85 21.31 17.74 18.69 19.62 20.48 TOTAL 21.75 22.32 21.20 16.00 16.54 21.00 a In contrast with the Army and Air Force, the Navy and Marine Corps do not have National Guard components.
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For many purposes, a more refined analysis would focus on deployed members who specifically served in the combat areas of operation in Afghanistan, Iraq, or both. While the DOD DMDC Contingency Tracking System contains data fields for specifying the location of each deployment designated as in direct support of the OEF, OIF, or OND mission, some individual records do not have movements in and out of country.
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. TABLE 3.15 Distribution of Deployment Location of Deployed Service Members, by Service Branch, as of 2010 Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, TOTAL, Deployment N N N N N N Location (column %)
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Of the 2.15 million who were deployed during that period, over half were in the Army -- nearly one-third in the regular Army alone -- and those in the National Guard and reserves combined constituted one-third of those deployed. Over 85% of those deployed were enlisted, and 12% were women, including 20% of the junior officers in the Air Force.
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Those in the National Guard and reserves had fewer multiple deployments than those in the regular component. The average length of deployments was 7.7 months -- from an average of 4.5 months in the Air Force to an average of 9.4 months in the Army.
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