Deployment

For sure one of the most challenging things about being a youth from a CF family can be having to deal with a deployment...it can be rough but also rewarding.

This section of the website is dedicated to helping you better understand deployments, what to expect and how to handle the challenge.

So what is deployment anyway?

Check out how these CF youth define military deployment!

Deployment is the sending of military resources to a foreign country to provide backup for a dispute occurring in that country. (Tyra from Comox)

To me, military deployment means another move to another unexpected problem. (Logan from Italy)

Deployment is when someone in the military is sent to work in another country. (Elizabeth from Brandon)

Deployment is when your parent’s boss sends them to another military base or to war. It’s a temporary measure and the person in question comes back when his or her job or task is completed. (Elizabeth from Victoria)

Military deployment is the distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work. This pretty much means that your mom or dad is going away for a bit. It's a part of the job and your parent has chosen this profession. He or she is serving our country. Someone has to do it… so be proud of your parent! (Gregg from Belgium)

Military deployment will always be the hardest thing about being in a military family. You parent is gone, for months on end, into a war zone… and you have no way of communicating. (Christopher from Ontario)

So what's so good about deployment?

Deployment offers youth many positive growth opportunities. When a youth is separated from a parent during deployment, CF youth say that they experience:

- fosters maturity;

- encourages independence and an increased sense of responsibility; and

- helps the youth to become an involved member of the family.