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Challenges During Deployment
Deployments can present military personnel with a number of challenges. Here are some examples of challenges faced during deployment.
Physical and Practical Challenges
- • Safety concerns
- • Hostile environment
- • Illness, injury
- • Trauma (e.g., combat, accidents)
- • Exposure to toxins
- • Intense desert heat
- • Intense cold
- • Dehydration
- • Sand, sandstorms
- • Not having needed equipment
- • Delayed supplies
- • Sleep deprivation, nightmares
- • Co-ed living quarters
- • Lengthy deployments (12 to 18 months)
- • Being deployed multiple times
Emotional and Mental Challenges
- • Uncertainty / Ambiguity
- • Ambiguous enemy
- • Authoritative work environment
- • Fear, anger
- • Hatred of the enemy
- • Loss, death
- • Survivor guilt
- • Boredom
- • Hyper-focus/concentration
- • Fast-paced action
- • Lack of information
- • Values challenged
- • Life does not make sense
- • Lost of faith in God or religious belief
- • Concerns about employment upon return
Social Challenges
- • Managing peers/leaders
- • Relationship conflicts
- • Family separation
- • Loss of income/financial worries
- • Missing family milestones
- • Separated from social supports
- • Little to no privacy/private time
- • Perceived lack of support of war efforts or military from general public
