Indian Ocean deployments were a year, back in the writing-letters days.
” the writing-letters days”. LOL! I remember those all too well.
Got a relative who is in the navy and he just had a tour in Spain and part of it in Sicily. He hopes he never sets foot in Sicily again, in lock down, long hours and the Italians nearly starved them to death with under cooked or no food whatsoever. He lost nearly fifteen pounds at that post. Spain wasn’t much better with the rona hysteria.