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Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Navy fleet boss: 9-month deployments unsustainable

USS Harry S. TrumanA new deployment plan billed as a way to make Navy life easier on sailors and their families will provide more time in port than the six-month deployment model, the fleet’s top boss said Tuesday.

Adm. Bill Gortney, head of Fleet Forces Command, told the crowd at the Sea-Air-Space expo that the latest deployment scheme, known as the Optimized Fleet Response Plan, would have sailors in port roughly 68 percent of the time during a 36-month cycle.

“I’ve heard a lot of people talk about the ‘good old days’ when we had six month deployments,” he said. “Well the good old days weren’t that good”

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