Quoting Removed, click Modern View to seeIt depended on the command and the number of bodies available to stand duty. If I recall we stood 6 section duty, that meant every 6 days you had duty and could not leave the ship. We worked our normal day or what ever shift was assigned. We were also on a 4 hour watch at some point during that 24 hour period. It may be during your work shift, right before or right after it rotated on 4 hour duty tours.. It was all dependent on the # of people. I was at one shore station that had 28 section duty so you stood duty every 28 days. I stood quarterdeck watch for a while on the ship I was stationed on. I hated it, dress uniform, hot, cold rain or whatever. We were in a covered area on an exposed weather deck. Other than a restroom break maybe twice in a 4 hour tour we were on our feet the whole time pretty much standing still. We controlled who came and went on the ship. I had other duty rotations that I liked much better and were much less boring. Other than that we worked a normal 8,10, 12 hour or what ever was needed to get the work done. At one point we were in a 16 on 8 hour off situation as a normal work day. They soon found that productivity and the quality of our work suffered too much and put us back on a 12 hour rotation. Just what I saw and lived.
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