re: Navy guys: how do you fill your down time?

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Topside watch in January in Groton was the worst.

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I stood all my topside watches in Kings Bay fighting mosquitoes and sand gnats. We'd pass the time on midwatches by throwing the shipyard bubba's bicycles in the water.

By the time I made it to Groton on my 2nd boat I had enough rank where I was duty section leader and writing the watchbills. It's nice always standing belowdecks in the middle of the day.

But it sucks when you get woke up in the middle of the night because some shitbag didn't relieve the watch on time.