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Can someone tell me what it is like to be in the Navy, or military in general?
I am thinking of joining the Navy but really have no idea about what it is like. No one in my family has been in the military so it is kind of new.
When you are at sea (and why else would you join the Navy? If you don't want to go to sea it's the wrong service for you) you will work a regular eight hour day every day except Wednesday (you get the afternoon off) and Sunday.
You will get up every morning when you hear over the PA system (called a 1MC) "Reveille, Reveille, All hands heave out and trice up. The smoking lamp is lighted in all authorized spaces." You will shower by turning the water on just long enough to get wet, then turning it off with a valve on the shower head, soaping down, and turning it back on just long enough to rinse the soap off. After dressing you will hear on the 1MC "Sweepers, sweepers man your brooms. Make a clean sweep down fore and aft. Sweep down all lower decks, ladder wells and passageways! Throw all sinkable trash clear of the fantail; now sweepers" and you will grab a broom or mop and pitch in to clean your assigned part of the ship. Then breakfast on the mess deck; you grab a tray and go though a cafeteria-style line for plenty of usually decent food. Once breakfast is over you'll hear "All hands to quarters for muster, inspection and instruction." and you'll go line up with your division (the guys and gals you work with) and hear the word for the day from your Chief (the senior enlisted supervisor for your division) and your Division Officer. Then to work! Break for lunch--same mess deck, same trays, different food and too many brussels sprouts, then back to work until you hear "Knock off ship’s work" and it's time for dinner.
Sometime during the day you may have "watch" which means you will be assigned to duties to keep the ship running safely and well; your watch depends on your "rate" (job specialty). If you are a quartermaster, you may actually be on the bridge steering the ship; if you are part of the deck force you may be standing way up at the bow or the stern of the ship as the fore or aft lookout; if you are an operations specialist you may be in the Combat Information Center manning a radar scope. But--during the time between dinner and breakfast you will definitely stand one four-hour watch, and possibly two.
After dinner your time will be your own--except for your time on watch--to read, play cribbage, spades or acey-deucy, or watch a movie until you hear "Taps! Taps! Lights out! All hands return to their racks and maintain silence about the decks. Taps." usually at 11pm.
Anytime, day or night, you may hear "General Quarters, General Quarters! All hands man your battle stations. Go up and forward on your starboard side, down and aft on your port side. General Quarters, General Quarters!" and your heart will pound and your pulse will race as you run to your battle station, which like your watch is generally determined by your rate. Then it's wait suspensefully to see what will happen next.
When you are in port, you can normally leave the ship after knock off ships work and return the next morning by Quarters formation. Your cue is the announcement "Liberty Call! Liberty Call! Liberty commences for duty sections 2 and 3, to expire onboard at 0800 tomorrow". Unless you happen to be in duty section 1--in which case you have to spend the night on the ship; one in three nights onboard is normal on deployment and often one in four when in your home port. It sounds awful but honest-to-God, there are thousands of men and women in our Navy who love it.
Full disclosure: I've just described the life of a junior enlisted person and I was an officer (always a better life and basically all it takes is a college degree) and also an aviator which meant I never stood watches at sea and never returned to the ship in port unless I had a watch--and sometimes in port we flew off the ship and moved into the Bachelor Officer's Quarters or a hotel for the entire inport period.
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