"In a worrying find for shift workers, a new study recently suggested that those who are chronically sleep-deprived by their work schedule may be at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease."

I wonder what years of 2-2-80s and other wonderful watchbills did to our health?

Rick

That's a great question Rick But........................

I kinda think drinking coffee for 8 hours, smoking a cigarette while breathing Carbon Dust with every cup of coffee and perhaps drinking beer at 7 AM at Vasquez's Shell Station (Puerto Rico)after a mid watch probably, just probably contributed to the cause.

J

John,

I'm guilty of all of those with the exception of coffee drinking, a habit I never picked up.

I'm also guilty of going scuba diving on the 8 hour swing between mids and eves and days to mids which made for some long watches.



Rick

Probably not too bad, it would have been our other issues, like Stress, drinking and smoking. Seemed to go with the territory. Lets add on your feet for very long periods of time.
Maybe I am wrong///???
CEC

Chuck,

I don't remember ever drinking at parties at your house in Iroquois Point housing.

Oh yeah, maybe it was because I was drinking that I don't remember the drinking.

Rick

I always said that OT's survived swingbacks on Caffeine, Nicotine,and Sugar. I seriously doubt I've have made it through all those years on the watch bill without those 3.

Rick,
I do recall a Balintine Ale/Zabucca shot evening, with a few folks that led to no good. That is all I will say.
Chuck

Chuck and Linda Cable's NAVFAC parties - oh, the stuff legends are made of! Ha!

Recall OT3 Donovan and another shipmate having so much to drink that they had to be driven home to on-base quarters by OT1 Cable ON THE HOOD OF HIS CAR! I think I recall something being said about "no one puking" in his vehicle.

NAVFAC Bermuda circa 1975?

Funny now that I'm retired I can talk about these things. And, now that I'm old (62) I'm starting to remember them as well.

- Jim

62???? You're a baby! I'd love to be that young!

Jim,
Do not recall that???? However I would have said that about puking in the car.
CEC

And I was the slightly intoxicated one, Chuck. You may not have been the driver (my brain was a bit fried that night) but it was your house and your car. Maybe someone got a hold of your keys - I wouldn't put it past a few of our shipmates back then. All good memories from NAVFAC Bermuda during that tour.

hey john and all....I can say I never had afib til I went into the commercial world...so, the watches, cat naps, drinking (I also never drank coffee, takes up room )...all of that went much better than trying to put up with the morons outside...even with the degrees...

1970, NavFac Coos Head. In the spring, the Sea Bees started renovating the OT's living quarters during the day. I for one, after coming off of Mid watches, would go down to Bastendorff Beach just below the NavFac and get some sleep to the sound of breaking waves.

I'll take on more parting shot at this thread by saying, like a lot of you, I get fired up on occasion when something occurs or someone write a post that brings back the extremely fond memories of being a member of the greatest system in the world.

Then reality sets in. The truth is I can normally NOT get through the day without a cat nap, sometimes two. So, standing the watch at my age? Suffering through a swingback? I think not!!!!

Its nap time.

J

NAVFAC San Salvador--1967-68: we had so few STs that we had to create a 2-2-2-32 watch rotation for 9 months. But oh were those 32 hours off sweet. I remember drinking Mateus and getting drunk and "falling asleep" while sitting in the catchment basin at night. Luckily I didn't drown.