Overall, roughly half of all the enlistees who start that program end up doing something else for Uncle Sam.Įven after passing through that filtering and training function, life at sea is difficult and occasionally someone cracks. They start the process of flunking people out 4 weeks into this particular stage of training. Academically, the most grueling stage packs a 2 year engineering technology degree into about 6 months. Those two years are set up to deliberately filter out people based on their ability to endure various stressors. The nuclear power training program takes about 2 years for enlisted sailors (which I was). There's a lesson to be learned here, but I don't think that this is it.
Eating your prior meal about 12 hours before you wake up also helps keep a decent body clock. So in a good rhythm you can eat when you wake up, go on your 6 hour watch, eat once more, work/train for 6 hours and sleep/personal for 6 hours. Midnight rations or midrats is the fourth meal. On the older boats you would also operate the control room at periscope depth with dim lighting, but newer ships with electronic masts probably don't.ĭiet-wise, the ship serves four meals a day, every 6 hours.
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The bunk rooms are always lit with dim red lights, and the working spaces are lit to nearly full daylight. > The bunk rooms are sanctuaries where silence is observed with monastic intensity. There are a couple of strong feedbacks to help you with the 18-hour cycle. Living on an 18-hour day is rough, but I always felt that the worst part was changing back and forth between a 24-hour day and the 18-hour day. The full cycle was 18 hours, which meant the timing of our circadian cycles were constantly changing.
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