In real life the first boats were sent to sea on August 19. You can go to Commander and change 'Days In Base' to match that number, or you can change it to 25 and start your next patrol just before the war begins. Once it's started you can go back to Commander and change 'Days In Base' to "Random".
Note: Back in 2004 they announced that SH3 was going to have a structured career somewhat like the one in SH2. The whole community raised a big stink about how great the free campaign in Aces Of The Deep was. They finally changed it to have that freedom of movement, but the '24 Hours' is a holdover from that. In real life you would have been ordered to go to a position and remain there for your entire patrol. After a week or so you could call in and request a shift to a new grid.
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