NFO Sleep Deprivation?

[MIDNJAC]

I realize you're joking, but good Sailors we want to keep no-shit leave the Navy because of this kind of toxic bullshit.

Whoa you need to really chill out. @sevenhelmet is just trying to make his weekend a little better. I just roundhoused the Grubhub delivery person and I feel way better now. SYOF

 

[MIDNJAC]

Snap out of it. An entire community of diverse people do this thing called Naval Aviation... and do it effectively. Sleep is the last thing you should be worrying about.

One might even argue that shooting a wildly invalid HARM could be an equally irrelevant, yet better worry to maintain for now. It is all LARPing until the day it isn't. That day sounds like it is still far away. OP, worry about things you can control. I promise that if you have this career, the last thing you will look back and think is "man, that was just one continuous crew rest violation"

 

[Mos]

I'll just say that if your career is anything like mine, you will have days when you're sleep deprived and the majority of those will not be the navy's fault. I've found that naval aviation is fairly ahead of this. Other communities (SWO) not so much, or so it seems.

 

[sevenhelmet]

I realize you're joking, but good Sailors we want to keep no-shit leave the Navy because of this kind of toxic bullshit.

I know and agree- it factored into my own decision to leave.

 

[sevenhelmet]

Whoa you need to really chill out. @sevenhelmet is just trying to make his weekend a little better. I just roundhoused the Grubhub delivery person and I feel way better now. SYOF

Thanks for the laugh, that really did make my weekend better. ?

 

[A$AP]

I know that during OCS all candidates get very little sleep for weeks. The Navy as a whole is also known to overwork its sailors giving them little opportunity to sleep, especially amongst the SWO. But I've read online that NFOs and Aviators get a little more sleep than the rest. Is this true? Is there any sleep deprivation during flight school or afterwards for NFO/Aviators? Other than OCS, will they ever be chronically sleep-deprived?

Sweetie

 

[Gatordev]

There was a beautiful poem about sleep that was popular in the JO bunkroom back in my day.

One below for not rhyming "rack" with "whack" when discussing underway sleeping quarters.

 

[AllAmerican75]

Eh. There've been MLK Day, Juneteenth, AAPI Month, this month, that month command functions going on since Davy Jones was in middle school getting stuffed into his locker. No one ever forces anyone to go. And if some junior Sailor feels a little happier she got to read a bad poem, and the boat is still running and the jets are getting fixed, then who am I to get in the way of making someone's underway life suck just a little bit less?

If someone wants to run a yoga class in an empty spot of the hangar bay, that doesn't impact readiness any more than if they were running the Crossfit WOD. Actually probably less, because there'd be less chance of someone ending up in medical after hurting themselves.

Now instead of a high-speed Sailor replace it with a very low-speed, high-drag civilian comparing her morning commute to the Civil Rights marches over the 1MC and you'll have an idea of what I'm complaining about. Work isn't a Def Jam Poetry Slam, and if it is, at least let me drink a beer at my desk. ?

Whoa you need to really chill out. @sevenhelmet is just trying to make his weekend a little better. I just roundhoused the Grubhub delivery person and I feel way better now. SYOF

Whoa, they let you do that now? ?
Do you have to tip extra for that service?

 

[Waveoff]

I'll just say that if your career is anything like mine, you will have days when you're sleep deprived and the majority of those will not be the navy's fault. I've found that naval aviation is fairly ahead of this. Other communities (SWO) not so much, or so it seems.

Couldn’t agree more.