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Originally Posted by Bubblehead Nuke
Granted, I was on a fast boat and we did not have those nice staterooms like the boomer babies, er, sailors had. We had real crews quarters, racked and stacked and shoved into a corner.
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When I first reported to the Alaska, my 'mattress' was between two storage lockers. Our 'staterooms' were I feel worse than a fast attack. If 1 of the 9 guys in the 'room' had a sleeping disorder, you found out about it. All that matters is whether fast attack or Trident, the sailor was still lucky to get 3-4 hours of good sleep due to the drills that were always going on during your off-watch time. Trying to qual the boat and qual your watch barely gave me 2-3 hours of uninterupted sleep.
EDIT: I about died when I read that a Trident sailor was emailing his family while on patrol...EMAIL??????....WTH!!!! My contact with my ex-wife was a 40 word telegram, or better known as familygram that the radio officer, XO, etc...got to see it before I did to make sure I wouldn't go nuts from what it said.