Do U.S. military personnel carry passports?

[Goathead]

This may sound like a stupid question, but I was just thinking about it and it would certainly make it harder to desert if you were deployed overseas and didn't have a passport. Anybody know what the standard procedure for U.S military personnel to identify themselves in a foreign country while deployed? Also, would they carry passports in a combat area?

[lateo]

1. No they don't...

Their military ID cards serve as the passport.

[Truman01]

2. Yes they carry passports.

It use to be they had a green passport, but now they carry blue ones just like everyone else.

TC

[luaneryder]

3. I did when on AD

My entire unit had our passport photos taken in civvies. We weren't usually deployed together and were not to ID ourselves as military if asked.

[vpigrad]

4. We weren't allowed to carry them, and ...

we weren't allowed to carry cash. They made sure we couldn't leave.

[vpigrad]

5. We weren't allowed to carry them, and ...

we weren't allowed to carry cash. They made sure we couldn't leave.

[Solly Mack]

6. Not always but some do

My husband can't travel outside of his present location without a passport....though he can be here without one. It's because he's stationed here and because the SOFA allows it. We're in Germany.

They don't need one in a combat location.

I had to have one to travel with him.