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The aim of the article is to identify and characterize selected social aspects of the Polish Armed Forces’ operations and missions overseas. In this part of the publication, the author presents three related and mutually affecting each other aspects, firstly concerning the consequences of the soldiers’ operation within a military base understood as a total institution, secondly, threats to soldiers’ personal safety and finally disturbances in the functioning of the soldiers’ families resulting from their service overseas. As the topic has not been exhausted, its three other aspects will be discussed in the second part of the article.