USS Dextrous - A Rather Unhappy Crew

“Many Sailors are being overly tasked to the point that they don't sleep for days at a time, chugging 5-10 energy drinks a day to stay awake and half-doing work,” a sailor wrote.

Not sleeping for days at a time is not impossible but improbable. At some point people literally fall asleep at the wheel. These kind of complaints detract from what are probably real issues. The toughness of the American Sailor should still be a thing and I hope it is.
 
I logged in in order to bask in the glow of the likes for my post. It got me thinking about the movie "Mr. Roberts", I probably watched it on NBC's "Saturday Night at the Movies", when both of us were about ten years old

I hate to sound like the old guy who starts every sentence with, "Well, I remember...." But, the fact of the matter is I think it would be almost impossible today to fit the contemporary equivalent of James Cagney, Henry Fonda, William Powell, and Jack Lemmon in the same movie.
 
@cb7893 I watch that movie every time its on. It never gets old and is a great character tale as well as an "everyman" movie.
 
“All the guys everywhere who sail from tedium to apathy and back again, with an occasional side trip to monotony.”
I used this quote to describe my missions in Iraq on a number of occasions.
 
The "Cain Mutiny" cast wasn't bad either. Son on USNS has the same problem. When Pulver reads that letter it gets me every time.
 
My Uncle Gene was in the Navy V-12 program with Jack Lemon at Harvard during WWII. Uncle Gene was a few years ahead of Mr. Lemon academically and graduated in ‘44 and served on the USS Pennsylvania (salvaged after Pearl Harbor) in the invasion of the Philippines. Johnny Carson was also a young ensign on the Pennsylvania and did card tricks for the officers. Uncle Gene (married to my Mom’s sister) is the only one in either my family or my wife’s family who was ever a commissioned officer, although our families have served in every war back to the Revolution. But he was not a blood relative, so the record still stands. If DS commissions, he will still be the first commissioned officer after a long line of blue jackets and dog faces.
 
its Jack Lemmon. Doesn't sound like nearly as bad a situation as that of the U.S.S. Cowpens under the infamous "Sea Witch" Captain Graf.
 
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