Get some sleep

Every year (or was it 6 months) we had to take an online health evaluation and ALWAYS got risky ratings for sleep. There wasn't anyway, unless they cut back on ops and admin, or increased the crew by 50-100%. I mean, it was typically 4 hours, if we got lucky 6, but nothing approaching 8. The worst schedule was double 4-8s, because you'd wake up around 2 a.m. stand watch 3:15 or 3:45 a.m. (depended not he ship) until 7:45-8:15 a.m. ish to pass everything over to the next watch, then you'd have a whole day of "office" work, and as the work day ended, you'd go back on watch from 3:45 p.m. - 8:15 p.m., or was it more because of dinner. You'd have to eat fast too to get back up on watch. So you're head back down after 8:30 p.m., have to do some ops stuff you couldn't do on watch, check in with people, etc etc etc. You'd be lucky to get in bed by 10-11 p.m. And if we were doing alien migrant interdiction operations (AMIO) or other LE, it was all up in the air.

I remember going to AMIO stations after getting off watch, working until midnight or later, going to sleep and then waking up at 2.

Double 4-8s was the WORST.
 
LineInTheSand said:
Every year (or was it 6 months) we had to take an online health evaluation and ALWAYS got risky ratings for sleep. There wasn't anyway, unless they cut back on ops and admin, or increased the crew by 50-100%. I mean, it was typically 4 hours, if we got lucky 6, but nothing approaching 8. The worst schedule was double 4-8s, because you'd wake up around 2 a.m. stand watch 3:15 or 3:45 a.m. (depended not he ship) until 7:45-8:15 a.m. ish to pass everything over to the next watch, then you'd have a whole day of "office" work, and as the work day ended, you'd go back on watch from 3:45 p.m. - 8:15 p.m., or was it more because of dinner. You'd have to eat fast too to get back up on watch. So you're head back down after 8:30 p.m., have to do some ops stuff you couldn't do on watch, check in with people, etc etc etc. You'd be lucky to get in bed by 10-11 p.m. And if we were doing alien migrant interdiction operations (AMIO) or other LE, it was all up in the air.

I remember going to AMIO stations after getting off watch, working until midnight or later, going to sleep and then waking up at 2.

Double 4-8s was the WORST.
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Something that has been recognized for years in aviation is that sleep deprivation is akin to being drunk. Any sailor or soldier pulling watch while intoxicated would be drummed out of the military. Pulling watch while deprived of sleep? You stud.
I wonder how many sailors, soldiers and airmen have been killed over the years due to this attitude. Again, if someone was drunk and caused a sailor’s death they would wind up in Leavenworth. Punch happy from a lack of sleep? Well that’s life.

Moderate sleep deprivation produces impairments in cognitive and motor performance equivalent to legally prescribed levels of alcohol intoxication - PMC

OBJECTIVES—To compare the relative effects on performance of sleep deprivation and alcohol.
METHODS—Performance effects were studied in the same subjects over a period of 28 hours of sleep deprivation and after measured doses of alcohol up to about ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 
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