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

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Don't know why, but I always figured that when we weren't at war most of the people on a ship worked a normal-ish workday/workweek.

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That's pretty true of the flight deck and weapons folks, but for us engineer type folks it doesn't really matter what we are doing. The ship still has to go and shite is constantly breaking or needs maintenance.