Posted: 1/28/2009 1:40:16 PM EDT
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I'm having a debate at work over the amount of sleep the different services get during basic training. During Army basic training in 1985, we got up for PT at about 0400, and went to bed about 2300 hours depending on what the DS had us doing.
How much sleep on average did you get during basic and under which branch? ETA: This stems from an inter-service rivalry thing going on in my office. I'm the lone Army guy pitted against two Air Force guys, a Sailor and a Marine. We love giving each other shit, and no one believes me about the amount of sleep we got. |
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I'm having a debate at work over the amount of sleep the different services get during basic training. During Army basic training in 1985, we got up for PT at about 0400, and went to bed about 2300 hours depending on what the DS had us doing. How much sleep on average did you get during basic and under which branch? ETA: This stems from an inter-service rivalry thing going on in my office. I'm the lone Army guy pitted against two Air Force guys, a Sailor and a Marine. We love giving each other shit, and no one believes me about the amount of sleep we got. The Marines don't sleep, and alarm clox are off-limits in the Air Force, so that leaves the USA and the USN... |
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I was Army, a few years after you...
I think lights out was at 1000, and light were back on at 0500. We had a 0530 PT formation. Usually, you were pulling fire guard about every third night. I remember doing a lot of illicit night time boot shining and such as well. On average , I would say we had 5 and a half hours a night. |
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Marines:
2100 Lights out Then: Firewatch Writing "Why my fuck-up will end up killing everyone in my unit and what am I supposed to tell their families" essays Clearning gear/getting things ready for the next day 0500 LIGHTS LIGHTS LIGHTS but: 0400 wake up the turds that did not clean their shit after lights out. 0430 everyone else wakes up and makes sure their shit is ready and half-on prior to 0500 |
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Navy 1993
2300 lights out. Up by 0400 was the average. During service week working in the galley: Up at 0230 to SSS, assemble and march to be at the Galley by 0330. I'm still not sure if that's as hard as trying to adapt to an 18 hour day (vice 24 hour) when underway on a submarine. 6 hours watch, 6 hours at work center, 6 hours of sleep (minus time for after watch clean-up and prewatch brief/turn-over). Repeat. All the while hoping that training, drills or field-day aren't hapening during your sleep shift. |
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I went through Basic combat training in 1979. We did not do PT until AIT 0400 wake up/ clean up 0500 chow 0510 Weapons draw Huh??? This makes no sense to me. Anyway... Army (sometime between 1985 and 1995) Basic : fuck if I can recall. I seem to recall a lot of sleep though. Lights out around 2100-2200, first call for PT at 0500, maybe 0530. Except for when some spasing ROTC retard freaks and wakes everyone up an hour early. Bat : first call at 0545, first formation 0630 Suck School : Sleep at Tuesday, 0430; wake up at Tuesday, 0530. Next sleep on Friday at 0230, wake up at Friday 0430. Lather, rinse, repeat. |
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Quoted: It really depended on where your firewatch was. If it was in your bay, it was a hour. If it was anywhere else, it was 1-1/2. Especially at the DS office. And we worked when we were there. Quoted: We had lights out around 2100-2130 and got up at 0430. Most nights we had to do a firewatch shift and those lasted 1 1/2 hours. -Army this, although I thought firewatch was an hour....don't really remember |
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I was Army, a few years after you... I think lights out was at 1000, and light were back on at 0500. We had a 0530 PT formation. Usually, you were pulling fire guard about every third night. I remember doing a lot of illicit night time boot shining and such as well. On average , I would say we had 5 and a half hours a night. About right. Although we sometimes got up earlier. The only time we had a good night's sleep was the night before graduation. I went out on the town with my cousin (anyone leaving post had to be signed out and in). |
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Basic in 1982 at Ft Bliss Tx. Up at 0330. Formation 15 mins later. Chow at 0400. PT was in the afternoon at 1600. Lights out at 2100 with fire watch every couple a days for 2hr. Also had to do 4hrs of CQ duty. Slept in on Sunday till 0500. This is the earliest I have ever heard. 330 in the morning? That's insane. |
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I went in 2003, Army, and I'd say average was 5-6 hours. I think we got up either at 4 or 4:30 and lights out around 10pm.
I got lucky and only did fire guard once. My DS assigned me to be in charge of the cleaning closet, gave me the key to it. Anyone on fire guard needing cleaning supplies could wake me up at any time to get things out for them, so I was exempted from fire guard. Of course I just got out everything they could possibly need before I went to bed, and put it all away in the morning. I think they woke me up to get things maybe twice. 
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| Lights out at 2200 on the dot every night. lights on at 0500 every morning on the dot. Fire watch for 2 hours every other night. During 4th week you got twice as many watches. Some times one a night some times two with an off day. It just depended on the two different watch schedules. Coast Guard 2001 |
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Ft Benning 1998: lights out at 2200, on at 0500, 1 hour firewatch every three days or so, 1 hour BN firewatch every few weeks.
If you were really lucky like me you got the triple crown of regular firewatch & BN firewatch separated by a couple hours then KP all day 
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WTF! You guys got to sleep!? We were cheated!
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I'm having a debate at work over the amount of sleep the different services get during basic training. During Army basic training in 1985, we got up for PT at about 0400, and went to bed about 2300 hours depending on what the DS had us doing. How much sleep on average did you get during basic and under which branch? ETA: This stems from an inter-service rivalry thing going on in my office. I'm the lone Army guy pitted against two Air Force guys, a Sailor and a Marine. We love giving each other shit, and no one believes me about the amount of sleep we got. The above sounds about right. Army 1986 |
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My son who completed Cav Scout OSUT at Ft Knox last year said that on a good night he got six hours of sleep, which was rare. Most of the time it was closer to four. They had fire watches and CQ and had to do laundry after lights out and get equipment ready and sometimes the Drills would fuck with them. He said sometimes he would only get two or three hours in. In the field they hardly slept at all.
They were allowed to sleep an extra hour on Sunday morning if they were not getting ready for something or being punished. He said he never remembers getting seven hours of sleep until the last couple of days after receiving the Crossed Sabers. |
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Parris ISland 1982
Reveille 0500 0501 get dressed 0502 get undressed 0503 get dressed 0504 get undressed 0505 get dressed 0506 get undressed 0507 get dressed 0508 get undressed 0509 to 0525 other assorted fuck-fuck 0525-0530 march to chow 0540 2100 fuck-fuck repeat |
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IIRC lights out was like 10 most nights, with an hour of free time beforehand, and the lights came back on at 05 most mornings, but we were supposed to be dressed, shaved and "toeing the line" when the lights came on, which meant firewatch mostly got us up at 4. If they were really lazy, they'd wait until 4:30, and inevitably someone wouldn't be ready and we'd get smoked.
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Parris ISland 1982 Reveille 0500 0501 get dressed 0502 get undressed 0503 get dressed 0504 get undressed 0505 get dressed 0506 get undressed 0507 get dressed 0508 get undressed 0509 to 0525 other assorted fuck-fuck 0525-0530 march to chow 0540 2100 fuck-fuck repeat Wait...you mean that most of your training day during basic was spent fucking? Just kidding - your post is hilarious! 
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Parris ISland 1982 Reveille 0500 0501 get dressed 0502 get undressed 0503 get dressed 0504 get undressed 0505 get dressed 0506 get undressed 0507 get dressed 0508 get undressed 0509 to 0525 other assorted fuck-fuck 0525-0530 march to chow 0540 2100 fuck-fuck repeat Wait...you mean that most of your training day during basic was spent fucking? Just kidding - your post is hilarious!
Not fucking, just getting fucked.
One-two-three-four-I love the Marine Corps! |
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One thing I will NEVER forget to the day I die about basic training was the steel heel plates that our TI's wore on the heels of their corfam low quarter shoes.
"Click, click, click!" When you heard that sound approaching on the tile floor of the barracks, the pucker factor always went up several notches. |
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I was Army, a few years after you... I think lights out was at 1000, and light were back on at 0500. We had a 0530 PT formation. Usually, you were pulling fire guard about every third night. I remember doing a lot of illicit night time boot shining and such as well. On average , I would say we had 5 and a half hours a night. This describes about the same for me in 1993 at Ft Benning, with obviously far less sleep during field training. |