Navy OKs changes for submariners' sleep schedules

Yahoo/AP ^ | 4-20-14 | MICHAEL MELIA

[maine yankee]

Bancroft SSBN 643 Charleston/Rota
Grenadier SS 525 Key West

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Of all my duty stations, and all my deployments.

Key West was the only duty where I cried when I left.

[X Fretensis]

dogged watches are still used in the Navy. Topsiders normally dog the watch daily. This keeps the four hour watches rotating so the same men do not always have the midwatch. It also gets the 1st dog watch (16:00-18:00) off watch for the evening meal. 2nd dog watch eats before going on watch at 18:00. Snipes used to dog the watch once a week, generally on Friday if I remember correctly. For the evening meal, one of the off watch sections would come down an take the watch for half an hour or so, allowing the on watch section to grab chow and then back to the hole.

[SteelCurtain_SSN720]

I worked pretty much the whole variety of watch patterns on the boat, mainly due to manpower issues. I much preferred the 6 on 12 off, 18 hour day. I credit those years of rotating sleep patterns for my ability to adapt quickly to sleep interruptions in my present day civillian life. i.e. when colicky babies didn’t understand that daddy worked second shift...

[freedumb2003]

>>You must have meant “diurnal” cycles, I bet. “Duodenal” would refer to a segment of intestine.<<

Dang spel-chek

Thanks

[ReaganÜberAlles]

Beautiful place, especially for an 18-19 year old guy.