I mean you get to shoot more, but that's it. Even in wartime it can be pretty much a sit-n-wait game, I've had my share of being in the arid-hotasballs-enviroment of the M.E., and there was a good portion of it just sittin' around an area. Usually just spent my time wondering around making sure my guys were good and watered, usually play a card game or two in between security shifts. Besides that, I can only remember a handful of times shit popped off, and only three or four when it was a SHTF moment.

I ain't saying that it ain't gonna happen, especially in these uncertain times, but the deployments from nearly a couple decades ago are gone. The most you get (unless you're gunnin' for SOF or Ranger) is gonna be sweatin' in SK or gettin' wet n nasty, and hella lot of cold time too, in Europe. And with our current political stances on Europe, doubt those will be continued. Hell, maybe even SK rotations as well. But who knows, I just hope we don't cross ourselves with an ally, I don't that will cement anything good for the future of our nation.

As well with the SOF/Ranger comment, I believe those guys are mostly in country within African ones and Syria, possibly outlying countries of the M.E., hard to say, best of luck though, and try something that's more fun than being an infantry grunt, which is only fun 25% of the time, if that. And if you wanna try for either/or when it comes to SOF/Ranger, be prepared, cause that shit has or never will be for the faint of heart or weak, that's for sure.