In 1984 my ship spent 248 days out of 365 underway.The skipper said it wasn’t a record because it wasn’t consecutive days underway. But it still sucked.
Where were you transiting? What ports? I mean, it sounds interesting but if you’re tired of the ports and mostly it’s just ‘water water everywhere and not a drop to drink!’
That’s crazy. I had it easy by comparison. We were never out more than three weeks at a time before we made port calls.
I have heard that deployment cycles are insane over the last couple of decades, and those people get to do port calls in places like Diego Garcia, if that. And they don’t go on liberty the way we used to in foreign ports.
Now, to go on liberty in many countries, you have to go with organized groups, I am told.
Sigh. Different Navy.