Unlike Army and Air Force units, which are not continuously subjected to frequent and lengthy deployments, marines and sailors can anticipate being deployed 40 percent to 60 percent of the time.

American troops have been taxed by lengthy deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Pentagon officials have sought to replace them with indigenous or allied troops.

Especially on lengthy deployments around the globe, as was more common with British ships than their Australian counterparts.

The announcement was made amid complaints from Congress and the families of part-time troops about the stress of lengthy deployments.

Airman Alnajjar and his wife, Rosemarie, who were married in October 2001, have had to delay their wedding party twice because of the lengthy deployment.

Five hundred miles to seaward was another similar group returning from a lengthy deployment at "Camel Station" in the Indian Ocean.

Usually physicians (family medicine, pediatrics, and internal medicine) are assigned to these lengthy deployments.

But they see long-term problems, like lengthier deployments that lower troop morale.

She arrived back in Mayport on 7 October 1966 and devoted the last quarter of the year to training at Guantanamo Bay in preparation for a lengthy deployment to Vietnam.

Frequent and lengthy deployments are the norm for these dedicated soldiers and the families that must bear with their absence.