Posted: 1/28/2009 11:05:54 AM 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 is more of 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. |
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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 is more of 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. This was the same for me at Ft. Dix in '88. -Mark. |
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USAF Basic in 2005.
Regular kids, 0530-2300ish. Dorm Chief (think platoon leader at trainee/recruit level) and element (squad) leaders, various other guys in other positions got less. I was dorm guard monitor (guard commander, more or less for the firewatch/door guards) and we had some real dingbats, so I was up every 2 hours to confirm orders/brief next guard shift. Six weeks, i think I got more sleep marching in formation than I ever did in my bunk. Things have changed some (basic is longer) but the amount of sleep is about the same. |
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When I went through Air Force BMT in 2000, I was a dorm chief like what Defensor_Fortis described. I averaged about 4 hours sleep per night because we always had some dumb fuck on guard duty who dicked something up and I would be woken up to deal with said dumb shits mistake.
Due to the age of the barracks, we were in and the expense of running the A/C units the CQ would call to the bays through the night and conduct temperature checks along with head count totals. We had one moron on guard duty who admitted to the TI down in CQ he couldn't read a thermometer. I was summoned from a deep slumber to teach that retard how to read something every 7 year old should be able to do. I taught this waste of space how to read a thermometer and then asked him how he got in the AF. This stupid ass just looked at me and said, "I just guessed on alot of them tests at the recruitin place." A few years later I ran into that numbnut hanging bombs off F-15E's heading north to enforce the no fly zone in Iraq. 
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Navy boot for me was Reveille - 0600 and Taps - 2200 but you had your "quarterdeck" watches through the night and were also supposed to iron all your uniforms during that time. Plus the RDC's on duty would always come in and light up the recruits that were fucking off (trying to sneak showers, etc.) Sigh....good times. 
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1988 - C/4/30 Infantry OSUT, Fort Beginning, GA. We were up at 0330 hrs. - 30 minutes before the other three platoons (fuckers). I'm guessing we got four or five hours of sleep. I think there is some sort of mandate requiring trainees to have no less than five hours of sleep prior to airborne operations, live fire ranges, etc. I don't know what all it covered. Of course, all the trainees received ample sleep on paper. 
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lol at you two SP's. It took me 5 minutes to figure out that you are 2 different people 
went to sleep about 2300, got up at 0415-0430, sometimes 0200. well that was the time allocated for sleep. It seems like I pulled EC (entry control, firewatch, whatever you might call it) every other night |
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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 is more of 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. Army Regs now say 4hrs minimum.... PT was 0600 in 2004, which meant that wake-up was 0500... Lights Out was usually 2200-2300, depending... If you had 'extra duty' (not in the UCMJ sense, but the 'you pissed me off' sense) then you stayed up to 2400.... And of course, there was fireguard, staff-duty & CQ.... If someone did anything stupid, like trying to get down to 'visit' one of the females (Ft Jackson - they had an alarm on the door down to the female floor)... Less sleep... |
| Sounds about right. We got 6 hours, theoretically, but it was generally four or less due to stupid shit. You would have morons fighting in the middle of the night, guys fucking screaming in their sleep, the occasional idiot on the top bunk would roll off the bunk, guys falling asleep on fire guard, being on fire guard. I hated being a CQ runner. We had a damn DS that would leave a Motorola walkie talkie at the desk. He would be out in his truck a ways off smoking us over the radio in the middle of the night. Nothing strikes you as more stupid then doing pushups to, "Up, Down" over a radio at 2am. The other cq across the way must have been confused as hell at our impromptu push up sessions or front back goes with no one around. |
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lol at you two SP's. It took me 5 minutes to figure out that you are 2 different people 
went to sleep about 2300, got up at 0415-0430, sometimes 0200. well that was the time allocated for sleep. It seems like I pulled EC (entry control, firewatch, whatever you might call it) every other night now dont go getting the cops all pissy or they will threaten to give us a ticket or something. 
I was a bed-liner so I got enough sleep. |
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I was a security grunt. I gave 3 tickets in 3 years, the first, I walked up to the MSgt's door with an M249 and a belt loaded and he nearly pissed himself. But I made a whole lot of people eat pavement at gunpoint. The higher-ranking the better......... you just became my new best friend
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2t2_Crash-Well I'm a law enforcement troop. I wrote alot of tickets and sent more than one dirtbag to confimement and a couple to Miramar and Leavenworth. I like running radar and I WILL write you a ticket. How about that one fucker?
By the way did anything more come of those goofballs you worked with who shipped a box of trash? That was some funny shit. |
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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 is more of 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. About what I remember back at Ft. Leonard Wood circa 1983. |
| I'm not for sure, but I've been told when I went through recruit training that we were suppose to get 8 hours a night. The DI's laughed as they said that, and then said that everything that didn't get done throughout the day, better get done by the time reville sounds in the morning. Needless to say, we were lucky if we got 4 or 5 hours a night. There was always mind boggling amounts of shit to do. It was pretty much endless until we turned the barracks over lol. |
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2t2_Crash-Well I'm a law enforcement troop. I wrote alot of tickets and sent more than one dirtbag to confimement and a couple to Miramar and Leavenworth. I like running radar and I WILL write you a ticket. How about that one fucker?
it's cool, you reserve the right to do your job.. and I reserve the right to hate you doing your job. LOL
By the way did anything more come of those goofballs you worked with who shipped a box of trash? That was some funny shit. as for the trash.. well what it ended up being is that the squadron is so damned poor that our locals have been recycling old packing material because we couldn't get any new stuff.... and that one base in particular got uppity about it and reported it up to MAJCOM rather than sending a "WTF" email back to the shippers. funny as hell since TMO is a joke to us Air Trans guys... but having to sit through flight calls dealing with these morons and their actions gets old. |
its probably alot less.
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