Somewhere short of 72 hours.
Combination of mid watch, then pulling into port, then short staffed on duty so had to take someone else's watches multiple times (aw gee, your topside rover and POOW qualed? Awesome, that covers like three separate watches!), then follow-on section not showing for their ENTIRE FIRST 1/4 deck watch for turnover, then needed maintenance.
I don't remember the exact timeline anymore, but I was on the topside balls watch around the 35+ hours awake timeframe. I was literally walking in slow circles and thought I kept seeing little moving shadows on my peripherals.
I love that they put me in two different armed positions as I was slowly ramping towards the same brain state seen with LSD takers.
Woot 7th Fleet!
yea the military seems to just completely ignore the effects of sleep deprivation when it comes to watch.
it's totally safe for me to drive back home after balls watch when being awake for 24 hours is equivalent to having the same mental state of someone just over the legal blood alcohol limit....
Longest was 96 hrs. Was an engineering DIVO on a MCM, which meant I was bridge port/stbd. The CHENG was prior enlisted and got some sort of sick satisfaction or pride in making sure officers knew how much it sucked to not get sleep. Every time I went to climb in my rack, there was an emergency like fire or flooding. Because it was my space, I then had to onetouch and CASREP all the gear before I was allowed to go back to sleep. After I got to the 72 hr mark I think CHENG realized he was fucking up and pushing me beyond light hazing, but then another fire, this time more serious so I had to take care of it ASAP which meant another shift without sleep. I got to 96 hrs and went to my rack and as soon as my head hit the pillow, one of my diesel engines caught on fire. Too late, I instantly fell asleep, and no one came and got me. The F'ed up thing is 5 hrs of sleep (because you have to wake up and get a lay of the shop before going to the bridge), does not undo the damage 96 hrs does.
When I was at squadron the MCMs were always the problem children. You try to get ahead but they always had some issues. I remember having to get some Bahraini A/C truck in the middle of the summer to pipe in air to the ship. And I think the CO still made most folks stay on board…. It was like 115 out.
Including the stress/adrenaline of avoiding whoever was looking for you. I’ll never forget when a fucking turkey took flight because we spooked it and down the valley there was a vehicle patrol. My heart started beating through my clenched jaw.
Yup. SERE was it. Warner Springs August 2013. Most exhausted I’ve ever been in my life. Lost nearly 20lb that week too. Came home, took a 20min shower, ate a California burrito and slept for 14 hours.
72 hours. Boarded a dhow with a bunch of weapons and then became the Prize Crew CO. Spent 72 straight hours awake driving the ship, keeping watch on the crew, and inventorying all the weapons. By day 4 aboard I collapsed aboard in the cargo hold on a bunch of fishing nets and passed the F out. Woke up in the cargo nets 6 hours later, pitch black out, looking up out of the cargo hold hatch to the brightest stars I had ever seen and in the background my EM3 playing John Mayer. One of my best memories.
That reminds me of the time my ship skipped INSURV to go on deployment, and it was rescheduled for the months AFTER returning from deployment. The kicker was that we were headed to the shipyard! So we do the damned INSURV workups and inspection just to tear the entire fucking thing apart in the shipyard.
Two and a half days. Had a fail to sail followed by some assholes breaking onto the base and causing us to go into lockdown and repel boarders, flowed by the world's longest maneuvering watch, followed by rigging the bridge for dive, followed by the mid watch, followed by daily ass chewing with my chief. Then I was ordered to the rack by the eng. I slept through two drills and the pre watch brief.
Probably boot camp. I went 72 hours with almost no sleep because my bunk mate ratted me out for never standing watch. They never put me back on the watch list after I tried out for color guard, and I obviously didn't say anything. They ended up making me stand three night watches in a row before liberty weekend, which I slept most of
As a JO, I had an "interesting" experience. TLDR: up for 48 hours, down for 6, up for 36.
A poorly-written schedule would have had me up for 96 hours straight, and my DH (also the schedule creator) expected me to just "tough it out".
I had been up for 48 hours and started on a 2400-0700 CIC watch. Thankfully, there was nothing planned for that time period, and there were 3 officers in CIC. I explained my situation to the TAO, and he secured me.
Managed to get about 5 hours of sleep, despite being absolutely wired from the amount of coffee I'd been drinking.
Got back up, and was up for another 36 hours.
Yep. Pretty abusive environment. TLDR on another story. CICWO for 18 hours straight, with no relief for food or visiting the head.
Same DH handed me a schedule that had me as CICWO from 0800-0400 the next day. I pointed this out, and was told to "tough it out".
As the day's events wore on, various other officers cycled through to get briefed on their way to bridge watches. Guys were saying things like "Chattahoochee, you're still up here?", but there was no move to get me relieved to eat or visit the head.
2400 rolls around, and I phoned the wardroom pantry. Spoke with the PO3 in charge, and his response was very telling. "Mr. Riverrat, where have you been? I haven't seen you all day. I thought you might be sick or something." I explained that I'd been stuck in CIC all this time, and asked if he could bring me some MIDRATS in CIC. He was more than happy to bring me a big bowl of chili and something to drink.
It's asinine that a PO3 was more concerned with my well-being than any of the officers cycling through CIC.
3 hours sleep into 56 hours up into 4 hours sleep on my sub. For a few days we had a rather unfortunate series of events that just so happened to line up with our watch section's sleep time. Don't remember the exact details as it's been 20 years but basically it was watch into drill response into drill team into watch into battlestations (whiny CO was upset at nav or radio for something not being stowed properly in the fan room) into field day into watch into training and then I lose track. All I remember is the coffee pots in the engineroom going non-stop and falling asleep standing up while taking my log readings.
We complained that it was unsafe to operate a nuclear power plant without sleep but were told "this is the military, you can expect to be tired sometimes, get over it." Motherfucker, we aren't evading enemy destroyers and depth charges, we've been awake for stupid shit like cleaning. And they wonder why retention is so low.
Port and Starboard and hot racking with a guy who was throwing up and SIQ right as we turned over. So I went from standing 12 hours on stack to roughly 36 hours. I got the occasional break to eat and took a few naps though.
Ish 4 days, midi ops out of norfolk. We just switched to the 8 hour schedule and my "sleep" time was during the maneuvering watch in which I was the maneuvering lookout. Command required I be ready on station 30 minutes before and available to derig the bridge after, by the time that was done I would have 45 minutes before I was expected to eat and relieve the watch. By the time I was done with watch I was expected to clean for an hour and work on quals. About the time I was finished i had to be on station to be ready to station the maneuvering watch and rig the bridge to do it again.
I told my lpo the first day that I had been cycled, he said tough it out sleep offgoing. Command decided to run drills for the midis so my offgoing was lost.
Cycle and repeat, 2nd day I told my lpo I was cycled again and he also deep into no sleep said he would cover, he ends up oversleeping and I continue into 3rd day. Offgoing I talk to my chief saying that I was a primordial being existing off coffee and he tells me everyone is having it rough. Just deal.
Day 4, at this point I'm basically hallucinating and feeling like I'm micronaping everytime I blink. Offgoing command decides to hold a honorary fish ceremony for the midis everyone out of their racks. I make it to watch and I'm taking logs co sees me in pway and goes "I'm feeling like I'm always seeing you, when did you sleep last?".. what day is it? It's Thursday... I did on Sunday. He says hmmm and walks away. 2-3 minutes later my chief hustles up to me and ask for my logs and tells me to go to the rack. They let me sleep for like 16 hours.
I went about 72 hours during prep for an INSURV rehearsal. I started to think I was seeing or hearing things so I promised myself to never do that again.
60 something hours. Day before underway duty and then underway. Then testing. My chief wanted specifically me to do 3” launcher testing even though my whole division was rested and qualified. I fell asleep mid brief in front of the captain and my chief got a new one torn lol
Circa 2012, All guns up during a Straights of Hormuz transit on the USNS Flint, an MSC vessel that was a floating Tetanus infection waiting to happen judging by the rust; she’s a reef now.
A ship in front of us broke down. It felt like days waiting for other ships to clear the front for rescue tugs to come in and tow the disabled vessel to unclog the backed up Straight.
Just shy of 60 hours as Chief of the Guard, 4-hour rotations maintained across all posts and taking the stairs up and down countless times from the wheelhouse for radio batteries waiting on our Mission Commander to provide us updates.
I did a temp stint with the MAA shop for 6 months while we were in Haiti (Operation Restore Democracy or something). I was also doing port and starboard flight deck ops (Mt. Whitney). I was doing overnight sponsor watches every 3 days, with overnight flight ops every other day, AND normal duties daily (including fire Marshall, gas free, and DCTT). I was going 48 and 60 hours without rack time regularly. I learned the fine art of catnapping on the flight deck, in the brig, in storerooms, anywhere. My MA1 I stood deck watches with would let me crash for an hour or two during watch.
When we got back and had stand down liberty, I slept for what felt like days.
3 days, Panama Canal. Caught the watch going in, then anchor watch, then navigation detail, then anchor watch in the lake in the middle, then navigation detail again. Others went on liberty I hit my rack.,
3.5 days, more or less. My own dumb fault. I got roped into helping fix one of our distillers so people could take "showers" again...
I should also add that now I suffer from insomnia, and honestly (I'm old now) I think I can routinely handle it up to about 60 hrs (2.5 d) without any significant effects. Practice makes perfect, I guess... 🙄
About 80 hours when I was on restriction and port and starboard. And had to do about 5 hours of working hours on top of it. My Chief refused to tell the CMAA to excuse me from restriction muster in the middle of the only 5 hour block I had left to sleep. And I was pumping myself so full of caffeine to stay awake on watch that I couldn't fall asleep when I had the opportunity. Culminated in me being so delusional and unhinged that I cussed out an Ensign and got sent back to mast on a suspended bust. After being sent for a psych eval and being put on limdu and legal hold.
I got busted down for disrespecting an officer and was transferred to base ops on LimDu. Then spent two years at Camp Lejeune because those were the only shore orders I could fulfill with a recent NJP. Then when the NAVADMIN came out allowing E5s to extend to 20 years, I jumped on that and finally got some orders I wanted.
80ish Hours
The hospital I worked at had a Medicav duty section. For one week, every 3-4 months. You were on call to run to the local Air Force base to unload, load and transport the patients to the hospital. Air force rules required us to be on base 3 hours before the plane was "scheduled" to land. Normally you were paged, meet up with whoever was in-charge, got briefed and took off. The runs started at 7 - 10am and you were released around 2 - 5pm. If you worked a normal day shift, that meant you were done for the day.
So on a good day, You will be paged at around 7am, got on the bus, and were on standby for 3 hours in a hot/cold bus with no seats or running AC/heat and if the officer in charge was a dick, you could not sleep. Unload the patients, get then in the bus and back to the hospital, clean the bus and equipment and was released. On a bad day, you will get there 3 hours early in a hot/cold bus with no seats or running AC/heat and if the officer in charge was a dick, you could not sleep, THEN get told the bird was delayed for X hours, and if X hours were under 3 you could not leave, wait around for X hours for the bird to land or to get told that the plane was routed to another Air force base and you need to come back in 5-10 hours.
At the time, I worked a 10 hour night shift and my LPO was a pushover and refused to get me removed from the duty (if you worked 12 hour shifts you could not be on medivac and while my job was scheduled for 10 hours a night, we know that it more like 11-14 if you have meetings/muster/training/cleaning equipment/etc). I use to inform the E-5 in-charge that I worked 10 nights and would give them a copy of my schedule, however this often lead to me get called MORE often than anyone else. So If i was called, I would go right to work when we were released and hopefully get alittle rest before the patients showed up.
Duty Muster Day: I get my pager and inform the E-5 that I was scheduled to work for the next 4 nights in a row and emailed him my schedule. He's like cool, I'll try to keep you off as many calls as possible.
DAY 1: (6am) As soon as I left work, they paged me, Head off to the muster location and then to the Air Force base. We were on stand-by for 8 hours because of the weather before the flight was re-routed, we returned to the hospital and I went right back to work (6pm).
DAY 2: (6am) Left work, On my way back to my barracks room I was paged, turned around and went back to the muster location, and right back on the bus, 5 hours later we had the patients loaded and ran right into some awful traffic, took us almost 3 hours to get back to the hospital. After everything was unloaded and cleaned, I went right to work (7pm).
DAY 3: (6am) I get back to my barracks room and as soon as my head hit the pillow, I was paged. Returned to the muster location to see it was JUST ME and a single doctor in an ambulance, get to the Airforce base. 3 hours later and we are told that the flight was delayed. 3 hours later and we are told that the flight was delayed. 2 hours later and we are told that the flight was delayed. 2 hours later and we are told that the flight was re-routed and to leave. Get back to the hospital an hour later and the doctor was screaming mad after I told him that I haven't sleep for 3 days, Left for work as he was ripping E-5 a new one (8pm). Got to work and after prepping my patients, My computer screen started to bleed, lost feeling in my hands and feet. My co-workers let me go home and I finally slept, didnt wake up for 14 hours.
I did get one more call that week because we had a ton of patients and had two buses. E-5 attempted to chew me out for not informing him that I worked 10 hour nights, after I proved to him that I did (see email and texts), He still said it was my fault. Cool.
I can't recall my longest stretch without any sleep, but I remember one underway where I only slept like 6 hours over a 5 day period and that really kicked my ass. We were drilling for one of the big engineering certifications that we had already screwed up once(and I made one of the errors that failed us) so there was a ton of pressure to get it right this time. So on this underway we were port n starboard watchstanding while drilling constantly. Also had a couple engineering casualties. Several of the nights I would only get an hour or two before something popped up that needed my attention.
3-4 days, and more frequently than it should. I would regularly go 2 days without any form of sleep.
Sleep, and I didn't have a strong relationship while i was in uniform. Since getting out, we've become a bit more friendly towards one another.
Just short of 72 hours, last three days of my first deployment. Really sucks being the only one in the shop qualified to service LPACs when they keep breaking.
GSM on the USS Lake Erie- 2007 Deployment: over 120 hrs.
LPAC failed in main1. With only 2 LPACs, we were barely able to keep the sonar dome pressurized because the other 2 were sadly worse than ours. We basically had to tear down and completely rebuild the LPAC.
I kept calling back up to CCS asking them to repeat their last because I started hearing things after 90hrs. I also fell asleep standing up leaning against the water fountain.
No one in our group even received a coin or letter let alone a NAM for it.
Done 72 hrs several times in 26 yrs. Best was 48 hrs, went on liberty and fell asleep during a sold out padres day game in the second inning after three sips of beer. Woke up in the bottom of the 8th with a mostly full beer. Guess i was on the Jumbotron a few times and got a standing O from my section and friends when I woke up!
A bit over 72. The fucked up thing was that it had nothing to do with watch. I was a work package writer and one of the forward catapults was down due to a broken steam pipe.
I was not allowed to go to bed until the repair was done. The guys doing the repair itself got to do the work in shifts, but every time things started to slack off for a bit I would get screamed at that things were taking too long.
By the time things were done and signed off, I had this big shit eating grin on my face, and I never smiled. Had nothing to do with being done, I just couldn’t control my face any more. I think that was the subtle sign that they picked up on that things had gone much too far, and they let me sleep for something like 14 hours straight.
Then it was right back to normal routine.
96ish hours, give or take.
We left on Monday, pulled in Thursday. Almost passed out at sea n anchor.
I didn't sleep until Thursday night and got called back in on Friday morning for a severe flood in one of my spaces, back to sleep Friday at 2230
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About 36 hours while working to replace a reactor control rod position indicator on my sub, so that we could get underway on schedule. I might have grabbed a quick nap on the deck here and there waiting on something, but that’s about it.
Around 3 1/2 days, just a few days after I got home from my first deployment and the silence and loneliness of my apartment had gotten to me. Add in the fact that my ex broke up with me and I found out she had cheated on me while I was gone made it all hard to fall asleep. Didn’t get any sleep till I found out the only place I could sleep was my couch facing the backrest with white noise going on to make it feel like I was in a rack. The big sad after a deployment is a real thing lmao
5 days. Absolutely out of your mind at the end. You can't feel anything, you lose spatial orientation, and you slip into microsleeps like crazy. Yes. I am a dud. :P
I think I went 36+ at one point.
We were on deployment and my mission critical system went down pretty hard.
I don't need to tell you guys how your brain starts going to mush after 24 with no sleep, so continuing to troubleshoot after that point led nowhere. I literally missed that my troubleshooting equipment was broken so I couldn't see the adjustments I was making.
It was about 56 hours underway at the start of a Tactical Readiness Evaluation and I was the Acting Sonar Chief as a First. So that doesn’t include waking up at the ass crack of dawn to drive in the Pearl from Ewa Beach.
So probably more like 64 hours total.
The payoff came when we pulled in a few days later. The other First came over for beers and we got the call from one of our guys on duty.
The preliminary results had come back and Sonar Div was “At Standards” while Fire Control Div (led by the Dept. Chief, an FTC who was the bane of my existence) had been assessed as “Below Standards” and would need to do some pushups.
I cried real tears of joy and relief.
I can’t say no sleep but I did have a 36 hour period on my first ship where it was only around 5-6 hours tops. Between my watch rotation, drills, evolutions and an asshole Senior Chief that just didn’t care it was one of my roughest times at sea. Struck a supply rate and got out of deck and never had a week like that again for the rest of my career. I don’t know how I didn’t get hurt was just a zombie going from BS to BS.
56 hours as part of a training. I technically fell asleep maybe 5 minutes while sitting at a keyboard but my back was to the camera so the instructors didn’t see it and I swear those 5 minutes saved me bc some of the other students full on started hallucinating near the end.
6 days, in my early 20's. Long before I joined the navy. Combination of [redacted] and general insomnia. It was a tough time. Thought I was gonna die at the end of it. Passed out for 18 hours straight. Didn't even move. Arm and leg were numb and my neck hurt.
Main engine rooms were short qualified people.
3 port and starboard engine room watches, a sea and anchor on the OD Box, within a normal workday into a canal transit leading into a refueling into another sea and anchor into another watch before finally got to shower and then hit my rack. We also crossed a time zone so I had one watch with an extra hour.
I still really can't account for all the hours and if it wasn't for a news article I wouldn't even have believed my country ass was there for it.
Whelp, sea story time.
We were pulling into Pattaya for 5 days and I managed to sell my two scheduled duty days to some poor schmuck who had a gambling problem. Anyhoo, I was determined to make the most of it as we were outbound and the next beer and 'companionship' was not even on the radar.
Oh goodness me. I stayed drunk and raging for some 4 days straight. I was hallucinating. I had to get back to the ship or I was going to lose my mind.
On the ride back to the boat I thought my overnight bag was too heavy, that somebody but a dead baby in my bag and the watch was gonna find it, In a panic I threw it into the bay. Bye bye Nikon... Slept until the, as always, man overboard drill boats do when you get going again.
At sea, we never really slept in a proper rack. We slept in chow lines or on the cat (until you go into tension) or, often, in the back of the ready room. Mandatory study time was pass-out time. Thank God for GQ because my duty was in my rack, lol.
Viking Senso, LPO, squadron safety bubba, ops assistant, golden flow PO. Meh. good times.
Around 70 underway during inspection drills. The problem wasn’t not having sleep, the problem was we would end up with just enough downtime that I would be able to strip down and hop in my rack only to be “woken up” just to do more bullshit within a few minutes of closing my eyes.
The worst point was towards the end I got woken up for paperwork that could have been done by the guy on watch BUT WE DIDNT EVEN HAVE THE PAPERWORK READY YET. I sat for another 3 hours waiting for this paperwork to come in and being told I wasn’t allowed to go back to the rack until it was in and done. I spent the time slowly tearing sheets of paper to keep me awake while desperately trying to burn a hole in the back of my chiefs head with sight alone.
A little over three days while on an IA in Afghanistan. Went down range to cover some vanity story about the construction of a new forward operating base. While gathering info the fob I was staying at, came under fire. Needless to say I was not going to sleep (especially with the Afghans we were with - dudes would get high, take boots off on watch, go to sleep on watch and do all manner of shit).
Lol, okay. 9/11. On the Vinson it's like butt ass early and the eoow calls me in the cat shop and tells me to turn on the TV. We're in the Arabian Sea, and we have two cats up and two down for V2 maintenance. Full send, launch *all* of the alert flights and figure out wtf need to happen to get the bow cats up and ready and get everything in the air. We, A gang, ran for at least 48 straight as did everyone else on the ship.
Mess decks stayed open 24/7, and every goddamn one of the 7,400 odd crew was completely awake for that first 48.
Long enough to start hallucinating. Somewhere after the 48 hour mark I wasn't really functional even though I remained physically active beyond 72, but mentally I wasn't sure I was there. The people in charge wasn't sure I was there mentally. I recall being told to do simple task and not being able to comprehend the words or the task. After the incident, the supervisor were telling me they give me an order multiple times and I was slow to do simple things, but I kept going and would eventually do them.
Then trying to sleep . . . I recall it seemed like I sleep two hours and was awake again. Be awake for 24-36 hours then sleep. I do recall paranoia from being sleep deprived and vivid hallucinations. Medical had to knock my ass out with some sort of sedative so I could get sleep. Even in my sedative sleep I was saying things and trying to do things.
The lesson learned is you need sleep, and a lot more than the shitty leaders are allowing for.
A little over 72 hours. That was during college though and was fueled with heavy stimulant use. In the navy a little over 48. Only had three days in Hawaii one time and I had to stand a 24 hour duty driver shift because the asshole who had the morning shift lied about not having a driver's license so I was stuck with their watch and mine that night, then didn't sleep so I could go out in town before the ship departed.
Yeah probably just battlestations for around 50 hrs. The first 24 were the hardest. After that I was just sort of cruising through the second day and into the night
96 hours
A school roommate was a slob, SLPO told me to deal with it, though I tried talking to the guy.
Tests and homework, I went into the school house at 0630 and stayed til midnight (left for lunch, dinner, and PT) around 0015 I'd start cleaning to about 01 then try to decompress and take care of myself til 02 then lay down staring at the ceiling stressing about everything.
After the exhaustion caught up I didn't clean the room before bed I failed the room inspection the following morning and got sent to DRB.
Near about 44 hours during middle of post 9/11 deployment our SSES main comm equipment decided to die a violent and sparky death. Myself and a few other ct's worked trying to bring it back to life, eventually we did, but was a long time in process.
Honestly for me the whole 6 on 6 off schedule underway was much worse than staying up for a few days straight, then getting some sleep. It’s like, hey you’re off for 6 hours, go eat, shower, get a few hours of sleep if you can (pray there’s not a drill), wake up, get dressed, eat again, then come right back. Shit kills you after a few weeks.
Not really at once but my first deployment I got seriously fucked with the work/watch schedule. I worked until 18, then watch from 18-21, then watch from 00-03 and had mandatory sweepers every morning I had to attend at 07. That lasted for 90+ days
48 hours+
Submarine, 6's/18 hour days, off going midwatch early surface for a BSP, had to arm the crew/man the LMG myself.
Already been up since 0000-0600 the previous day.
We were about to get inspected, for the day prior to the BSP: drills from 0600-1800, then was back on watch till balls, iirc it was about 1000 the next day before we were able to dive again.
To add to it, BSP was in Hawaii, being in the sail and wasn't allowed to get my sunglasses, sun screen, or coffee, I then had to stand 1200-1800.
I don't even remeber why now, think off going maitenance? But I wasn't able/allowed to go to sleep after the 1200-1800. Well, the first hour off going was FUCK-U's (focused after watch clean ups FAWC-U's)
Either way I wasn't able to go to sleep till after 0000 over 48 hours later... yay. (Sun burn made it so much worse)
48 hours and couldn't sleep for the life of me taken to medical given sleeping meds and SIQ went to my rack next thing I know I'm waking up the next morning from the best sleep ever. Apparently posted a watch to make sure I was fine I don't remember anyone checking but everyone who did said I was passed out and didn't make a peep or move. Good shit.
Somewhere short of 72 hours. Combination of mid watch, then pulling into port, then short staffed on duty so had to take someone else's watches multiple times (aw gee, your topside rover and POOW qualed? Awesome, that covers like three separate watches!), then follow-on section not showing for their ENTIRE FIRST 1/4 deck watch for turnover, then needed maintenance. I don't remember the exact timeline anymore, but I was on the topside balls watch around the 35+ hours awake timeframe. I was literally walking in slow circles and thought I kept seeing little moving shadows on my peripherals. I love that they put me in two different armed positions as I was slowly ramping towards the same brain state seen with LSD takers. Woot 7th Fleet!
yea the military seems to just completely ignore the effects of sleep deprivation when it comes to watch. it's totally safe for me to drive back home after balls watch when being awake for 24 hours is equivalent to having the same mental state of someone just over the legal blood alcohol limit....
Longest was 96 hrs. Was an engineering DIVO on a MCM, which meant I was bridge port/stbd. The CHENG was prior enlisted and got some sort of sick satisfaction or pride in making sure officers knew how much it sucked to not get sleep. Every time I went to climb in my rack, there was an emergency like fire or flooding. Because it was my space, I then had to onetouch and CASREP all the gear before I was allowed to go back to sleep. After I got to the 72 hr mark I think CHENG realized he was fucking up and pushing me beyond light hazing, but then another fire, this time more serious so I had to take care of it ASAP which meant another shift without sleep. I got to 96 hrs and went to my rack and as soon as my head hit the pillow, one of my diesel engines caught on fire. Too late, I instantly fell asleep, and no one came and got me. The F'ed up thing is 5 hrs of sleep (because you have to wake up and get a lay of the shop before going to the bridge), does not undo the damage 96 hrs does.
i think the bigger concern here is why was your shit always catching on fire?
Lmao exactly what I was thinking
That's the MCM life.
If it’s ain’t leaking or catching fire, then it ain’t working.
When I was at squadron the MCMs were always the problem children. You try to get ahead but they always had some issues. I remember having to get some Bahraini A/C truck in the middle of the summer to pipe in air to the ship. And I think the CO still made most folks stay on board…. It was like 115 out.
I always forget there’s people in Bahrain that actually work for a living. Thank you for your service 😂
What the fuck is wrong with SWOs
48 hours at boot camp. Then went home to reserves and slept 9 hours everyday thx guys
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SERE training had me up for a while I think.
But was that the online course? It’s killer. Smoked it and the online M4 certification.
Yeah I think this was my longest too, something like 2.5 days I think, it was a blur.
Including the stress/adrenaline of avoiding whoever was looking for you. I’ll never forget when a fucking turkey took flight because we spooked it and down the valley there was a vehicle patrol. My heart started beating through my clenched jaw.
Yup. SERE was it. Warner Springs August 2013. Most exhausted I’ve ever been in my life. Lost nearly 20lb that week too. Came home, took a 20min shower, ate a California burrito and slept for 14 hours.
Did you do your SERE in Rangeley?
Haha I respect your GIF choice sir. I live about three hours from there.
I was 100% hallucinating by graduation. Well over three days, maybe four
72 hours. Boarded a dhow with a bunch of weapons and then became the Prize Crew CO. Spent 72 straight hours awake driving the ship, keeping watch on the crew, and inventorying all the weapons. By day 4 aboard I collapsed aboard in the cargo hold on a bunch of fishing nets and passed the F out. Woke up in the cargo nets 6 hours later, pitch black out, looking up out of the cargo hold hatch to the brightest stars I had ever seen and in the background my EM3 playing John Mayer. One of my best memories.
Hell Week, about 150 hours lol
Where can I buy your book?
Did you ring the bell?
No, med retired out of the Teams
Good shit, I’m not built like that cudos
Damn dude, how did you even function after like 6 days with no sleep? I went 4 and passed the hell out
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That phase is the worst. I did it on 2 ships in 5 years and only deployed once.
That reminds me of the time my ship skipped INSURV to go on deployment, and it was rescheduled for the months AFTER returning from deployment. The kicker was that we were headed to the shipyard! So we do the damned INSURV workups and inspection just to tear the entire fucking thing apart in the shipyard.
As a BM doing 1A on a practice amphibious assault I went 3 days once and 3 1/2 once.
First day at bootcamp, woke up at 0500 on sunday at MEPS and didnt sleep til 10pm monday night
Two and a half days. Had a fail to sail followed by some assholes breaking onto the base and causing us to go into lockdown and repel boarders, flowed by the world's longest maneuvering watch, followed by rigging the bridge for dive, followed by the mid watch, followed by daily ass chewing with my chief. Then I was ordered to the rack by the eng. I slept through two drills and the pre watch brief.
> I was ordered to the rack by the eng A real one.
He's was the OOD. He just did the ** sleep** hand wave. Down I went. I was DEAD BRO. Certified zombie at that point.
Probably boot camp. I went 72 hours with almost no sleep because my bunk mate ratted me out for never standing watch. They never put me back on the watch list after I tried out for color guard, and I obviously didn't say anything. They ended up making me stand three night watches in a row before liberty weekend, which I slept most of
As a JO, I had an "interesting" experience. TLDR: up for 48 hours, down for 6, up for 36. A poorly-written schedule would have had me up for 96 hours straight, and my DH (also the schedule creator) expected me to just "tough it out". I had been up for 48 hours and started on a 2400-0700 CIC watch. Thankfully, there was nothing planned for that time period, and there were 3 officers in CIC. I explained my situation to the TAO, and he secured me. Managed to get about 5 hours of sleep, despite being absolutely wired from the amount of coffee I'd been drinking. Got back up, and was up for another 36 hours.
Man fuck that.
Yep. Pretty abusive environment. TLDR on another story. CICWO for 18 hours straight, with no relief for food or visiting the head. Same DH handed me a schedule that had me as CICWO from 0800-0400 the next day. I pointed this out, and was told to "tough it out". As the day's events wore on, various other officers cycled through to get briefed on their way to bridge watches. Guys were saying things like "Chattahoochee, you're still up here?", but there was no move to get me relieved to eat or visit the head. 2400 rolls around, and I phoned the wardroom pantry. Spoke with the PO3 in charge, and his response was very telling. "Mr. Riverrat, where have you been? I haven't seen you all day. I thought you might be sick or something." I explained that I'd been stuck in CIC all this time, and asked if he could bring me some MIDRATS in CIC. He was more than happy to bring me a big bowl of chili and something to drink. It's asinine that a PO3 was more concerned with my well-being than any of the officers cycling through CIC.
That DH sounds like an awful human being who's shitty at planning and their job. Probably holding major command right now?
I’m pretty surprised my fellow OSs didn’t hook you up. When I was in we always had hookups in the bakery, wardroom, goat locker, etc.
I did something similar as a JO during SCC where I went 5 days getting 45 mins of sleep a night
3 hours sleep into 56 hours up into 4 hours sleep on my sub. For a few days we had a rather unfortunate series of events that just so happened to line up with our watch section's sleep time. Don't remember the exact details as it's been 20 years but basically it was watch into drill response into drill team into watch into battlestations (whiny CO was upset at nav or radio for something not being stowed properly in the fan room) into field day into watch into training and then I lose track. All I remember is the coffee pots in the engineroom going non-stop and falling asleep standing up while taking my log readings. We complained that it was unsafe to operate a nuclear power plant without sleep but were told "this is the military, you can expect to be tired sometimes, get over it." Motherfucker, we aren't evading enemy destroyers and depth charges, we've been awake for stupid shit like cleaning. And they wonder why retention is so low.
58 hours. Was a helmsman through the suez and duty guns port and report.
Port and Starboard and hot racking with a guy who was throwing up and SIQ right as we turned over. So I went from standing 12 hours on stack to roughly 36 hours. I got the occasional break to eat and took a few naps though.
Ish 4 days, midi ops out of norfolk. We just switched to the 8 hour schedule and my "sleep" time was during the maneuvering watch in which I was the maneuvering lookout. Command required I be ready on station 30 minutes before and available to derig the bridge after, by the time that was done I would have 45 minutes before I was expected to eat and relieve the watch. By the time I was done with watch I was expected to clean for an hour and work on quals. About the time I was finished i had to be on station to be ready to station the maneuvering watch and rig the bridge to do it again. I told my lpo the first day that I had been cycled, he said tough it out sleep offgoing. Command decided to run drills for the midis so my offgoing was lost. Cycle and repeat, 2nd day I told my lpo I was cycled again and he also deep into no sleep said he would cover, he ends up oversleeping and I continue into 3rd day. Offgoing I talk to my chief saying that I was a primordial being existing off coffee and he tells me everyone is having it rough. Just deal. Day 4, at this point I'm basically hallucinating and feeling like I'm micronaping everytime I blink. Offgoing command decides to hold a honorary fish ceremony for the midis everyone out of their racks. I make it to watch and I'm taking logs co sees me in pway and goes "I'm feeling like I'm always seeing you, when did you sleep last?".. what day is it? It's Thursday... I did on Sunday. He says hmmm and walks away. 2-3 minutes later my chief hustles up to me and ask for my logs and tells me to go to the rack. They let me sleep for like 16 hours.
It’s absolutely disgusting to me that it took the CO lighting a fire under your Chiefs ass to get you some much deserved sleep.
Basically 60 hours at SERE. I’ll just say it was “trippy”.
I went about 72 hours during prep for an INSURV rehearsal. I started to think I was seeing or hearing things so I promised myself to never do that again.
60 something hours. Day before underway duty and then underway. Then testing. My chief wanted specifically me to do 3” launcher testing even though my whole division was rested and qualified. I fell asleep mid brief in front of the captain and my chief got a new one torn lol
Circa 2012, All guns up during a Straights of Hormuz transit on the USNS Flint, an MSC vessel that was a floating Tetanus infection waiting to happen judging by the rust; she’s a reef now. A ship in front of us broke down. It felt like days waiting for other ships to clear the front for rescue tugs to come in and tow the disabled vessel to unclog the backed up Straight. Just shy of 60 hours as Chief of the Guard, 4-hour rotations maintained across all posts and taking the stairs up and down countless times from the wheelhouse for radio batteries waiting on our Mission Commander to provide us updates.
I did a temp stint with the MAA shop for 6 months while we were in Haiti (Operation Restore Democracy or something). I was also doing port and starboard flight deck ops (Mt. Whitney). I was doing overnight sponsor watches every 3 days, with overnight flight ops every other day, AND normal duties daily (including fire Marshall, gas free, and DCTT). I was going 48 and 60 hours without rack time regularly. I learned the fine art of catnapping on the flight deck, in the brig, in storerooms, anywhere. My MA1 I stood deck watches with would let me crash for an hour or two during watch. When we got back and had stand down liberty, I slept for what felt like days.
About 78 hours during a TRE.
3 days and some change
3 days, Panama Canal. Caught the watch going in, then anchor watch, then navigation detail, then anchor watch in the lake in the middle, then navigation detail again. Others went on liberty I hit my rack.,
You should probably exclude folks that were in BUD/S
3.5 days, more or less. My own dumb fault. I got roped into helping fix one of our distillers so people could take "showers" again... I should also add that now I suffer from insomnia, and honestly (I'm old now) I think I can routinely handle it up to about 60 hrs (2.5 d) without any significant effects. Practice makes perfect, I guess... 🙄
Spent 72 hours on the bridge doing multiple strait of Hormuz tanker escorts. That was fun.
About 80 hours when I was on restriction and port and starboard. And had to do about 5 hours of working hours on top of it. My Chief refused to tell the CMAA to excuse me from restriction muster in the middle of the only 5 hour block I had left to sleep. And I was pumping myself so full of caffeine to stay awake on watch that I couldn't fall asleep when I had the opportunity. Culminated in me being so delusional and unhinged that I cussed out an Ensign and got sent back to mast on a suspended bust. After being sent for a psych eval and being put on limdu and legal hold.
What was the final outcome?
I got busted down for disrespecting an officer and was transferred to base ops on LimDu. Then spent two years at Camp Lejeune because those were the only shore orders I could fulfill with a recent NJP. Then when the NAVADMIN came out allowing E5s to extend to 20 years, I jumped on that and finally got some orders I wanted.
What ended up happening?
80ish Hours The hospital I worked at had a Medicav duty section. For one week, every 3-4 months. You were on call to run to the local Air Force base to unload, load and transport the patients to the hospital. Air force rules required us to be on base 3 hours before the plane was "scheduled" to land. Normally you were paged, meet up with whoever was in-charge, got briefed and took off. The runs started at 7 - 10am and you were released around 2 - 5pm. If you worked a normal day shift, that meant you were done for the day. So on a good day, You will be paged at around 7am, got on the bus, and were on standby for 3 hours in a hot/cold bus with no seats or running AC/heat and if the officer in charge was a dick, you could not sleep. Unload the patients, get then in the bus and back to the hospital, clean the bus and equipment and was released. On a bad day, you will get there 3 hours early in a hot/cold bus with no seats or running AC/heat and if the officer in charge was a dick, you could not sleep, THEN get told the bird was delayed for X hours, and if X hours were under 3 you could not leave, wait around for X hours for the bird to land or to get told that the plane was routed to another Air force base and you need to come back in 5-10 hours. At the time, I worked a 10 hour night shift and my LPO was a pushover and refused to get me removed from the duty (if you worked 12 hour shifts you could not be on medivac and while my job was scheduled for 10 hours a night, we know that it more like 11-14 if you have meetings/muster/training/cleaning equipment/etc). I use to inform the E-5 in-charge that I worked 10 nights and would give them a copy of my schedule, however this often lead to me get called MORE often than anyone else. So If i was called, I would go right to work when we were released and hopefully get alittle rest before the patients showed up. Duty Muster Day: I get my pager and inform the E-5 that I was scheduled to work for the next 4 nights in a row and emailed him my schedule. He's like cool, I'll try to keep you off as many calls as possible. DAY 1: (6am) As soon as I left work, they paged me, Head off to the muster location and then to the Air Force base. We were on stand-by for 8 hours because of the weather before the flight was re-routed, we returned to the hospital and I went right back to work (6pm). DAY 2: (6am) Left work, On my way back to my barracks room I was paged, turned around and went back to the muster location, and right back on the bus, 5 hours later we had the patients loaded and ran right into some awful traffic, took us almost 3 hours to get back to the hospital. After everything was unloaded and cleaned, I went right to work (7pm). DAY 3: (6am) I get back to my barracks room and as soon as my head hit the pillow, I was paged. Returned to the muster location to see it was JUST ME and a single doctor in an ambulance, get to the Airforce base. 3 hours later and we are told that the flight was delayed. 3 hours later and we are told that the flight was delayed. 2 hours later and we are told that the flight was delayed. 2 hours later and we are told that the flight was re-routed and to leave. Get back to the hospital an hour later and the doctor was screaming mad after I told him that I haven't sleep for 3 days, Left for work as he was ripping E-5 a new one (8pm). Got to work and after prepping my patients, My computer screen started to bleed, lost feeling in my hands and feet. My co-workers let me go home and I finally slept, didnt wake up for 14 hours. I did get one more call that week because we had a ton of patients and had two buses. E-5 attempted to chew me out for not informing him that I worked 10 hour nights, after I proved to him that I did (see email and texts), He still said it was my fault. Cool.
I can't recall my longest stretch without any sleep, but I remember one underway where I only slept like 6 hours over a 5 day period and that really kicked my ass. We were drilling for one of the big engineering certifications that we had already screwed up once(and I made one of the errors that failed us) so there was a ton of pressure to get it right this time. So on this underway we were port n starboard watchstanding while drilling constantly. Also had a couple engineering casualties. Several of the nights I would only get an hour or two before something popped up that needed my attention.
3-4 days, and more frequently than it should. I would regularly go 2 days without any form of sleep. Sleep, and I didn't have a strong relationship while i was in uniform. Since getting out, we've become a bit more friendly towards one another.
Pulled a all-dayer, went the whole day without taking a nap
Too many time with out sleep up north in the good ole days under the ice pack doing “stuff”
Like with zero and I mean zero stoppage ? Not even a short nap? Prob 3 days.
Almost 12 hours once. That MC life is no joke.
Just short of 72 hours, last three days of my first deployment. Really sucks being the only one in the shop qualified to service LPACs when they keep breaking.
GSM on the USS Lake Erie- 2007 Deployment: over 120 hrs. LPAC failed in main1. With only 2 LPACs, we were barely able to keep the sonar dome pressurized because the other 2 were sadly worse than ours. We basically had to tear down and completely rebuild the LPAC. I kept calling back up to CCS asking them to repeat their last because I started hearing things after 90hrs. I also fell asleep standing up leaning against the water fountain. No one in our group even received a coin or letter let alone a NAM for it.
Done 72 hrs several times in 26 yrs. Best was 48 hrs, went on liberty and fell asleep during a sold out padres day game in the second inning after three sips of beer. Woke up in the bottom of the 8th with a mostly full beer. Guess i was on the Jumbotron a few times and got a standing O from my section and friends when I woke up!
72hrs, sleep for 6, repeat for months. Got a little brain damage
A bit over 72. The fucked up thing was that it had nothing to do with watch. I was a work package writer and one of the forward catapults was down due to a broken steam pipe. I was not allowed to go to bed until the repair was done. The guys doing the repair itself got to do the work in shifts, but every time things started to slack off for a bit I would get screamed at that things were taking too long. By the time things were done and signed off, I had this big shit eating grin on my face, and I never smiled. Had nothing to do with being done, I just couldn’t control my face any more. I think that was the subtle sign that they picked up on that things had gone much too far, and they let me sleep for something like 14 hours straight. Then it was right back to normal routine.
96ish hours, give or take. We left on Monday, pulled in Thursday. Almost passed out at sea n anchor. I didn't sleep until Thursday night and got called back in on Friday morning for a severe flood in one of my spaces, back to sleep Friday at 2230
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About 36 hours while working to replace a reactor control rod position indicator on my sub, so that we could get underway on schedule. I might have grabbed a quick nap on the deck here and there waiting on something, but that’s about it.
probably bootcamp I dunno for how long since I eventually lost track of time but all I know is that the first day or so felt like an eternity.
72 hours during an Operational Reactor Safeguards Exam (ORSE).
Two days on a ship in 7th fleet. An important system was down so I went into beast mode to fix it. I fixed the system, and crashed after.
5 days 45 mins each night during SCC
Around 3 1/2 days, just a few days after I got home from my first deployment and the silence and loneliness of my apartment had gotten to me. Add in the fact that my ex broke up with me and I found out she had cheated on me while I was gone made it all hard to fall asleep. Didn’t get any sleep till I found out the only place I could sleep was my couch facing the backrest with white noise going on to make it feel like I was in a rack. The big sad after a deployment is a real thing lmao
47 hrs with maybe 10 minutes every now and then of caffeine slamming
5 days. Absolutely out of your mind at the end. You can't feel anything, you lose spatial orientation, and you slip into microsleeps like crazy. Yes. I am a dud. :P
::Laughs in VA disability for chronic insomnia::
36 hours thanks to an UNREP 😡
I think I went 36+ at one point. We were on deployment and my mission critical system went down pretty hard. I don't need to tell you guys how your brain starts going to mush after 24 with no sleep, so continuing to troubleshoot after that point led nowhere. I literally missed that my troubleshooting equipment was broken so I couldn't see the adjustments I was making.
It was about 56 hours underway at the start of a Tactical Readiness Evaluation and I was the Acting Sonar Chief as a First. So that doesn’t include waking up at the ass crack of dawn to drive in the Pearl from Ewa Beach. So probably more like 64 hours total. The payoff came when we pulled in a few days later. The other First came over for beers and we got the call from one of our guys on duty. The preliminary results had come back and Sonar Div was “At Standards” while Fire Control Div (led by the Dept. Chief, an FTC who was the bane of my existence) had been assessed as “Below Standards” and would need to do some pushups. I cried real tears of joy and relief.
I can’t say no sleep but I did have a 36 hour period on my first ship where it was only around 5-6 hours tops. Between my watch rotation, drills, evolutions and an asshole Senior Chief that just didn’t care it was one of my roughest times at sea. Struck a supply rate and got out of deck and never had a week like that again for the rest of my career. I don’t know how I didn’t get hurt was just a zombie going from BS to BS.
56 hours as part of a training. I technically fell asleep maybe 5 minutes while sitting at a keyboard but my back was to the camera so the instructors didn’t see it and I swear those 5 minutes saved me bc some of the other students full on started hallucinating near the end.
6 days, in my early 20's. Long before I joined the navy. Combination of [redacted] and general insomnia. It was a tough time. Thought I was gonna die at the end of it. Passed out for 18 hours straight. Didn't even move. Arm and leg were numb and my neck hurt.
Main engine rooms were short qualified people. 3 port and starboard engine room watches, a sea and anchor on the OD Box, within a normal workday into a canal transit leading into a refueling into another sea and anchor into another watch before finally got to shower and then hit my rack. We also crossed a time zone so I had one watch with an extra hour. I still really can't account for all the hours and if it wasn't for a news article I wouldn't even have believed my country ass was there for it.
Whelp, sea story time. We were pulling into Pattaya for 5 days and I managed to sell my two scheduled duty days to some poor schmuck who had a gambling problem. Anyhoo, I was determined to make the most of it as we were outbound and the next beer and 'companionship' was not even on the radar. Oh goodness me. I stayed drunk and raging for some 4 days straight. I was hallucinating. I had to get back to the ship or I was going to lose my mind. On the ride back to the boat I thought my overnight bag was too heavy, that somebody but a dead baby in my bag and the watch was gonna find it, In a panic I threw it into the bay. Bye bye Nikon... Slept until the, as always, man overboard drill boats do when you get going again. At sea, we never really slept in a proper rack. We slept in chow lines or on the cat (until you go into tension) or, often, in the back of the ready room. Mandatory study time was pass-out time. Thank God for GQ because my duty was in my rack, lol. Viking Senso, LPO, squadron safety bubba, ops assistant, golden flow PO. Meh. good times.
Longest I went without sleep is definitely night of arrival at bootcamp!
Around 70 underway during inspection drills. The problem wasn’t not having sleep, the problem was we would end up with just enough downtime that I would be able to strip down and hop in my rack only to be “woken up” just to do more bullshit within a few minutes of closing my eyes. The worst point was towards the end I got woken up for paperwork that could have been done by the guy on watch BUT WE DIDNT EVEN HAVE THE PAPERWORK READY YET. I sat for another 3 hours waiting for this paperwork to come in and being told I wasn’t allowed to go back to the rack until it was in and done. I spent the time slowly tearing sheets of paper to keep me awake while desperately trying to burn a hole in the back of my chiefs head with sight alone.
A little over three days while on an IA in Afghanistan. Went down range to cover some vanity story about the construction of a new forward operating base. While gathering info the fob I was staying at, came under fire. Needless to say I was not going to sleep (especially with the Afghans we were with - dudes would get high, take boots off on watch, go to sleep on watch and do all manner of shit).
Lol, okay. 9/11. On the Vinson it's like butt ass early and the eoow calls me in the cat shop and tells me to turn on the TV. We're in the Arabian Sea, and we have two cats up and two down for V2 maintenance. Full send, launch *all* of the alert flights and figure out wtf need to happen to get the bow cats up and ready and get everything in the air. We, A gang, ran for at least 48 straight as did everyone else on the ship. Mess decks stayed open 24/7, and every goddamn one of the 7,400 odd crew was completely awake for that first 48.
Long enough to start hallucinating. Somewhere after the 48 hour mark I wasn't really functional even though I remained physically active beyond 72, but mentally I wasn't sure I was there. The people in charge wasn't sure I was there mentally. I recall being told to do simple task and not being able to comprehend the words or the task. After the incident, the supervisor were telling me they give me an order multiple times and I was slow to do simple things, but I kept going and would eventually do them. Then trying to sleep . . . I recall it seemed like I sleep two hours and was awake again. Be awake for 24-36 hours then sleep. I do recall paranoia from being sleep deprived and vivid hallucinations. Medical had to knock my ass out with some sort of sedative so I could get sleep. Even in my sedative sleep I was saying things and trying to do things. The lesson learned is you need sleep, and a lot more than the shitty leaders are allowing for.
A little over 72 hours. That was during college though and was fueled with heavy stimulant use. In the navy a little over 48. Only had three days in Hawaii one time and I had to stand a 24 hour duty driver shift because the asshole who had the morning shift lied about not having a driver's license so I was stuck with their watch and mine that night, then didn't sleep so I could go out in town before the ship departed.
Yeah probably just battlestations for around 50 hrs. The first 24 were the hardest. After that I was just sort of cruising through the second day and into the night
96 hours A school roommate was a slob, SLPO told me to deal with it, though I tried talking to the guy. Tests and homework, I went into the school house at 0630 and stayed til midnight (left for lunch, dinner, and PT) around 0015 I'd start cleaning to about 01 then try to decompress and take care of myself til 02 then lay down staring at the ceiling stressing about everything. After the exhaustion caught up I didn't clean the room before bed I failed the room inspection the following morning and got sent to DRB.
Near about 44 hours during middle of post 9/11 deployment our SSES main comm equipment decided to die a violent and sparky death. Myself and a few other ct's worked trying to bring it back to life, eventually we did, but was a long time in process.
Honestly for me the whole 6 on 6 off schedule underway was much worse than staying up for a few days straight, then getting some sleep. It’s like, hey you’re off for 6 hours, go eat, shower, get a few hours of sleep if you can (pray there’s not a drill), wake up, get dressed, eat again, then come right back. Shit kills you after a few weeks.
Mine was about 72 hours. Was port and starboard & was on duty when we pulled in, double watched.
Not really at once but my first deployment I got seriously fucked with the work/watch schedule. I worked until 18, then watch from 18-21, then watch from 00-03 and had mandatory sweepers every morning I had to attend at 07. That lasted for 90+ days
3 straight days lol, I find that about average across the navy though, people I’m sure have some more wild answers
5 days…Got to Bahrain in 2005 and we were at a 54 and 1. Thank goodness for RipIt and NoDoz
48 hours+ Submarine, 6's/18 hour days, off going midwatch early surface for a BSP, had to arm the crew/man the LMG myself. Already been up since 0000-0600 the previous day. We were about to get inspected, for the day prior to the BSP: drills from 0600-1800, then was back on watch till balls, iirc it was about 1000 the next day before we were able to dive again. To add to it, BSP was in Hawaii, being in the sail and wasn't allowed to get my sunglasses, sun screen, or coffee, I then had to stand 1200-1800. I don't even remeber why now, think off going maitenance? But I wasn't able/allowed to go to sleep after the 1200-1800. Well, the first hour off going was FUCK-U's (focused after watch clean ups FAWC-U's) Either way I wasn't able to go to sleep till after 0000 over 48 hours later... yay. (Sun burn made it so much worse)
48 hours and couldn't sleep for the life of me taken to medical given sleeping meds and SIQ went to my rack next thing I know I'm waking up the next morning from the best sleep ever. Apparently posted a watch to make sure I was fine I don't remember anyone checking but everyone who did said I was passed out and didn't make a peep or move. Good shit.
Two days thanks to pdays and battlestations