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[LENNY0861]

so if you have 80 squad menmbers you will use about 10 per day to be watch that equal 70 a week times @ 8 weeks is 560 watches divided by the 80 means you will pull on watch per week. Am I correct? Who chooses the times and schedules this? I would assume you would want early watch or daytime watch if possible Getting up at 2 am must have been brutal, but if I am right at least its only once a week.

[LT Guppy]

Originally Posted by LENNY0861

so if you have 80 squad menmbers you will use about 10 per day to be watch that equal 70 a week times @ 8 weeks is 560 watches divided by the 80 means you will pull on watch per week. Am I correct? Who chooses the times and schedules this? I would assume you would want early watch or daytime watch if possible Getting up at 2 am must have been brutal, but if I am right at least its only once a week.

Except there are multiple watches at the same time. You can expect to be on watch multiple times per week. And watch continues once you're in the fleet. Sometimes twice a day on duty days (with duty days being every 3-8 days depending on the size of the ship). Also the duty schedule rotates, so you don't always have days, or you don't always have nights.

[LENNY0861]

Originally Posted by Guppy2010

Except there are multiple watches at the same time. You can expect to be on watch multiple times per week. And watch continues once you're in the fleet. Sometimes twice a day on duty days (with duty days being every 3-8 days depending on the size of the ship). Also the duty schedule rotates, so you don't always have days, or you don't always have nights.

Thats alot different from My AF days once basic was over all that stuff was behind Us, Navy is alot different from deploying etc. As we were always on base free to come and go as we pleased I basically worked 9-5 M-f and since my home was 100 miles away I went home everyweekend. One thing is my son goes in as AM but is in the reserves, I am still trying to figure out what he will do since there is no Navy base within 250 miles of us, I guess he will drill with the Marine REserves, as he never got a straight answer on that

[LT Guppy]

The ships always have to have enough people on board that they could pull out of port with no notice in an emergency. The different watches are to keep the ship 24/7. Obviously, it's different underway than in port, but the same basic idea applies.
On duty days, you stay onboard for 24 hours and stand whatever watches you have that day. If its not your duty day, you're free to go as soon as the work day is over.

[cttaef21]

Originally Posted by LENNY0861

so if you have 80 squad menmbers you will use about 10 per day to be watch that equal 70 a week times @ 8 weeks is 560 watches divided by the 80 means you will pull on watch per week. Am I correct? Who chooses the times and schedules this? I would assume you would want early watch or daytime watch if possible Getting up at 2 am must have been brutal, but if I am right at least its only once a week.

The division will have a port and starboard watch that will make up the watchbill...Having a good watchbill can get you bravo zulu and mistakes can get compartment hits, so the rover(the only one who writes in the watchbill)is typically someone who is good at keeping the watchbill free of mistakes..after a few weeks at RTC, our division got a group of people who were good at it and we would just rotate the watches...I ended up having watch every other day, but usually got 2000-2200 which I thought was the best because you don't lose sleep because you get off right at taps.

Everyone who was not part of that 15 man group of rovers would have to stand nightwatch which runs from taps until reveille......Some people never really had to stand watch, some people had to wake up in the middle of the night frequently...The RDC's liked to make people stand nightwatch if they had been screwing up lately