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71340Duster said

That's very true. When I made Chief on the USS Peleliu there were several BMC and SC's, great dudes with lot of "personality", especially in port lol!

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Hell yeah. We had to stand the lookouts 24/7 and daily work. Three shift. Man sleep was a privilege. For those that don't know how it worked you did the reg work 0700 to 1600. Then all day every day you had watches on top of that. Helm, Lee helm, port and starboard and aft lookout in every sort of weather. Shifts were like this
1) 0000-0400
2) 0400-0600
3) 0600-0800
1) 0800-1200
2) 1200-1600
3) 1600-1800
1) 1800-2000
2) 2000-0000
3) 0000-0400
etc 7 days a week on the way.

Sleep was impossible you were a zombie after a week. So yes you partied hard in port to forget about it.

Also the Bosum rating was where they put all the people that could not get through technical schools. I went in undesignated since I had no idea what I wanted to do. Lots of Judge ordered join the military guys at that time also. You had to be street smart for sure.

Got hit a few times by waves. You had a harness during serious stuff like hurricanes did not matter. Been ion 50 plus waves for sure