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When your at sea for months at a time what do you do to keep yourself occupied during your off time? How much, during a routine day/week do you have?

Depends on your job. If you are a supply guy pretty much work 7-4 and can watch movies on hard drives, work out, and get plenty of sleep.

If you have a job that involves standing watches it depends on how many qualified watch standers you have. If only enough for 2 sections you are 6 on 6 off on watch, while also working any time between 7-4. So you could have midnight to 6am watch, work 7 to noon, then have watch noon to 6pm. Then you essentially have 6 non working hours to decide if you want to eat, sleep, or workout before midnight watch. If you want to do all of the above you are running on 3hrs sleep all week. No time to worry about movies.
This is Monday through Saturday, then Sunday you only work 12 hours (watch hours). Shitty life

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I'd imagine that today you can get on the internet, Skype home, watch movies and such

Not really. Internet is terrible (like worse than dial-up), and there are limited computers per division. You can watch DVD or hard drive movies if you have time (a lot don't). You can make calls but there are limited phones and a noticeable delay, not to mention time differences. They have navy television (for sports and such), if the ship is heading in the correct direction you can get a shitty picture

When I would watch LSU games it would normally be on WatchESPN.com waiting for a description of the last 3 plays to load up, at 3am, in a jacket because the room with our computer was cold for equipments sake. I would also be going 40+ hours without sleep as I'd trade watches because I needed my 6hr off window to be during the game.

^ All of this is based off of a deployed destroyer. Aircraft carriers had it better, subs likely worse.

This post was edited on 3/6/17 at 7:16 am