Well, I have not observed fatigue doubling or tripling with duplicate (or triplicate) names so I'm not worried about that, but the skills being so similar leads to placing them in same compartment so that can be confusing.
Seminole, that is pretty funny. The nicknames are a big part of service life. I recall on my 1st class midshipman cruise I was sent to USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) in Japan. I checked onboard after the longest flight (up to that point) in my life, exhausted. The officer of the deck introduced himself as "Brooks Ensign". I was tired and thought, since he was an Ensign, that his last name was Brooks and that it was an odd way to introduce yourself. Only later did I find he was actually Ensign Brooks Ensign, or Ensign Ensign as the crew on 1MC delighted in announcing...
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