Free Time??

[corpsman20060926]

On your free time whats to do onboard a ship? Also how much free time will you get or will it be a constant job to be done?
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Thanks,

HN :err:

[crazycajun]

Freetime? Are you talking about while the Ship is out or in Port?

While the ship is out you pretty much work normal working hours depending on the mission at hand. Though you do stand duty every 3 to 5 days depending on the watch section. You'll have time to go to church, read, watch movies, play cards etc. You may be assigned to a Medical Responce Team which any time a Medical Emergency is called away you respond.

In Port Liberty is basically the same as working at a clinic with the major difference being that you are still standing a watch every 3 to 5 days. Same rules apply as Liberty at a Hospital when you are in your homeport. Though Liberty hours may be applied when you are Forward Deployed.

Just remember everything revolves around the mission at hand.

[old navy]

During my free time I used to take care of 3-M.

Meal, movie, and mattress.

[usnpinoy]

On your free time whats to do onboard a ship? Also how much free time will you get or will it be a constant job to be done?
:chat:
Thanks,

HN :err:

It all depends on what type of platform you are on. If you are on a Carrier.... then you have duty and what not... but on a small ship, you typically don't stand duty out to sea.

It also depends on your work ethic. I'm the type of person who realizes that there is ALWAYS work to be done, so my freetime is spent sleeping (usually I hit the pit around 0000 and wake up an hour or two before reville to PT.) But if you have a functioning department and a crew that supports you, there can be time to watch movies, play video games, and all the other normal stuff people do on their off time.

In port, the job is usually a little bit like shore duty. You go to work, and your off time is yours. (With duty somewhere in between)

[crazycajun]

Doc Gonzales,

You sound like a really hard worker brother. Though you do need to take a little time for yourself once in a while or you'll burnout! Though I concur with the work always being there and to get ahead you work long hours to fix it. I know I did when I was shipboard, though I still made sure I took time for myself. An hour here, an hour there. Though I made sure the work got done.

[usnpinoy]

Doc Gonzales,

You sound like a really hard worker brother. Though you do need to take a little time for yourself once in a while or you'll burnout! Though I concur with the work always being there and to get ahead you work long hours to fix it. I know I did when I was shipboard, though I still made sure I took time for myself. An hour here, an hour there. Though I made sure the work got done.

I do work rather hard. I save all of my energy for the liberty ports! Besides... there is always the Smoke Break (best place for scuttlebutt and what-not) Not that I fully condone smoking... but how else can you have a guilt free break when you have so much work to do? I have had quite a few burn outs... but that's why I take leave for a re-charge.

[DOCSpanky]

I was active..... attatched to a reserve fleeet ship.:confused: FFG 7 S.E. Morrisson. We rotated crews of reservists. I only went out a few times (sadly she was an old tired ship at the end of her career) and my day usually consisted of Reveille, Breakfast, A.M. Sickcall, clean in medical for about an hour, PT, Lunch, wander aimlessly laughing at the reservists, Setup medical with the TV and NES (yes kids, it was that long ago!) prepare for the nightly MARIO GOLF tournament, P.M. sickcall, dinner, MARIO GOLF TOURNAMENT where of course as per Navy regs, no money changed hands.... :rolleyes: If I really wanted a piece of the action, it was off to the mess decks for some SPADES or EUCHRE!

It all depends on your assignment. On carriers you are "7of9", and from what I was told, it was much akin to being stationed ashore. In the small "real" Navy, it is usually you, another newbie goob like you, and a Chief IDC come hell or high water!:err: And it was usually some of both with a boat load of reservists on board!

Do you have an assignment? If your staying out of the "sandbox", I'd jump all over it.

DOCSpanky

[coastie16]

Here in the Coast Guard, assinged to a cutter (of varying sizes) as an HS2, HS1 or HSC you may be tasked to go out on boarding parties with the MLE team for migrant interdiction which an HS in the USCG can tell you is hard long sleepless days. We get a lot of AIMO action on our cutters patroling south.

Then of course there are the things that go "bump" in the night.....someone will come waking you up.......

Or we play ambulance, and the skipper sends us to another vessel to see to their sickly's. Fisherman are notorious. :err:

[8404]

You also stand mail bouy watch while out at sea.