For your information I spent 6 years in the Navy and am a Veteran of the first Gulf War. If I had had my way out of high school I would have been either a Marine on the ground or on a SEAL team with the Navy, but nature/heridity took my dreams and left me color blind. As it was I settled for something else I was interested in and still served my time as a Machinist Mate, getting out as a E-6. My job consisted of tending to the "old equipment" shipboard. By old equipment I mean your old fashioned coal oil fired boilers that had been updated to fire on JP5, as well as my main responsibilities of tending to the main steam turbines, heat exchangers, reduction gears, and all of their associated support equipment. We didn"t have any of this new, fancy gas turbine equipment where the all the guys do is "push a button" to fire it off and go. We actually had to be the first onboard ship to get everything fired up and to operating pressure (1200psi) and insure the ship was ready to go when they decided to. We were also the last off the ship because just like everything had to be fired up it had to be shut down and cooled down. When we were underway our mainspace temps averaged in the 100+ degree range so we actually worked and sweated for a living during our watches which were typicaly 8 hours on and 8 off or 12 on and 12 off. Rarely did we have the luxury of 3 section duty (ie- 4 on 8 off) underway like the rest of the ship, because we were always undermanned. My last shipboard assignment was as the LPO (Leading petty officer) in the #4 engine room aboard the USS America (CV-66). In case you didn"t know that is/was an aircraft carrier built back in the late 50"s-early 60"s. As of about two years ago it is now sitting on the bottom of the ocean as a base for a coral reef thanks to your government.
So, before you go spouting off about someone"s military time you ought to at least go and do a search on this site because that subject has been brought up many times and my military service dates are out there if you look.
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