Navy Jobs With the Least Deployment in 2026
Not every sailor wants to spend their career at sea. These ratings have the smallest deployable billet base in the Navy — most of the career is spent at shore commands rather than aboard ships, submarines, deploying squadrons, or expeditionary units.
The Sea Duty Tempo score runs from 1 (almost no deployable billets) to 10 (continuously deployable). It measures where you are stationed and how often your unit leaves homeport — not how physical or hands-on the work is. An office job inside a deployed submarine scores high; a hands-on mechanic job at a shore Fleet Readiness Center scores low. If a rating spends its career in squadrons or ship’s company, it will not appear on this list no matter how clean the work is.
- Sea Duty Tempo1/10 sea duty tempo
- Sea Duty Tempo2/10 sea duty tempo
- Sea Duty Tempo3/10 sea duty tempo
- Sea Duty Tempo4/10 sea duty tempo
- Sea Duty Tempo4/10 sea duty tempo
- Sea Duty Tempo4/10 sea duty tempo
- Sea Duty Tempo5/10 sea duty tempo
- Sea Duty Tempo5/10 sea duty tempo
- Sea Duty Tempo5/10 sea duty tempo
- Sea Duty Tempo5/10 sea duty tempo
Rankings based on available data. Scores are updated as new Navy data is published.
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