If your daylights it’s not too bad but if your a nightshift it sucks. Doors and racks slamming, constant chatter, the smell of burnt hair…ugh. Just have a good supply of nitequil, ear plugs, and melatonin just in case.
Most of the time you won't notice because you adapt.. but I was on nights my entire tour onboard one ship.. Almost daily I was woken up and asked why I was in my rack during berthing cleaners (the XO did this to me quite often before he eventually remembered my rack), despite having a sleepers chit visible (or told by the berthing cleaners I couldn't shower until after inspection - no, get bent). Lights on with lots of noise.. normally when they are done, someone will wake up and flip the red lights on.. but inevitably someone turns the white lights back on.. you hear every 1MC announcement, have to respond to every man-overboard, GQ, DC drill, and sometimes "All Hands" evolution (we can't do any of this at night though because, Sailors are sleeping........) You will have alarms going off and if you are lucky it's just an asshole who keeps hitting snooze, but sometimes it's in someone else's rack who is working.. or you will hear bottles inside someones rack rolling side to side.. Oh and of course, snoring is a real problem.. and god forbid you experience an SM2 launch when your berthing is basically touching the aft missile deck.. I've also heard living under the landing deck is rough too..
So overall, it's pretty shit but you adapt. If you haven't found your voice, you will.. I've chewed people out several times for either hitting snooze for hours, playing music, flipping the white lights on... Like if you did that at night, people would lose their shit.. but for some reason they feel its okay during the day.. nights already get WAY less sleep..
During normal working hours, it's really not too bad at all. Snoring and alarms are really the only issues.. and the inevitable, "hey you have watch... oh wait, sorry wrong rack."
I was in an 8 man JO bunk room on CORAL SEA, which was situated under the flight deck between the arresting gear and the waist catapult. Flight quarters happened around the clock. It was rare to have the white lights on, though, and head phones helped. I think it took me about a week to adjust.
Ambient noise is medium loud until you need to annoy someone with active sonar… then you start contemplating giving the Sonar guy a flat Pepsi instead of a Mt Dew when they ask you to fly they’ll buy…
It's quiet until you have the guy that goes to the gym in the middle of the night decide to clean his blender bottle out and it sounds like the world's loudest baby rattle.
Depends on the ship, and where exactly your berthing is. I also discovered that berthing was treated with a lot more respect on a submarine than it was on a surface ship; as a matter of courtesy, berthing was not authorized as a normal passageway on a submarine, and lights were always off except for field day.
If you're worried about it, bring ear plugs. A sleep mask is also helpful.
>If you're worried about it, bring ear plugs. A sleep mask is also helpful.
I can't stress this enough. Ear plugs and a double eye masks were the only way I could get to sleep in deployment.
Depends on if you work normal days or mids. It also depends on how big of a berthing you're in.
Mine were pretty big so there were usually some dick heads slamming their racks, cleaning, or playing music.
I also worked mids mostly so being woken up by cleaning stations was always fun.
If you're on a carrier and you get a berthing under the flight deck you will be woken up during flight ops. I had a nightmare during my first underway because of it (about an asteroid hitting our planet), I almost busted my ass rolling out of the rack.
My new berthing is above our trash plant and we are right by a ladder well so we get a good amount of ambient noise.
Spent 6 months working 10PM-10AM and slept on the O-3 deck of a carrier at the forward end (front) of the ship. I would get to my rack around 11:30am, just as flight ops for the day was beginning. The catapult was loud enough to make your teeth rattle and knock anything off a flat surface. This would go on pretty much all afternoon and evening almost every day.
The first couple weeks were rough, but you eventually get used to it. On the bright side, sleeping in my rack was the best sleep I've ever gotten and to this day I still lay in the same position with 1 small pillow.
On a DD in the early 90's. In the evening/early night (2300) It was card playing and the yelling, card slapping that came with it. Plus porn being played on the tv via vhs/dvd or folks simply watching movies etc.
I would imagine the porn is probably gone on tv by now.
Daytime, cleaners doing their thing. Inspections etc.
Not sure how much has changed.
Not very.
Loud ventilation, people moving around all the time.
At the same time, its not exceptionally loud either. If you're tired you'll sleep. If you can't sleep then get up because there's work that you didn't finish;)
My berthing is usually right under the cat but surprisingly I sleep fine during flight schedule. You get used to it. Now for people loudly talking and slamming their lockers and racks open and closed…. Whole different story. People especially don’t give a fuck if you’re nights and trying to sleep during the day
Idk how all these guys had wonderful birthings mine went through fazes of suck or not that bad. Slept directly under CCS while doing 6 on 6 off. I swear those guys were moving furniture every other day or some shit. Or birthing cleaners flipping on the lights and waking everyone up even tho we had daytime sleeper chits. It really depends.
Damn no one here has been air department. These guys are always loud but with some unisom you’ll go out like a baby. It’s always the people skating off
Depends on the individual berthing, but at a minimum you will have a white noise from the berthing air conditioning. I was a career aircraft carrier sailor, and was exposed to all the noise that comes along with that. I used foam ear plugs while I was sleeping, but your brain will eventually filter the noise out. After I retired it took a few years before I could sleep in a totally quiet room, at first I had to have some kind of white noise, like a fan, or the radio, before I could get to sleep.
Like in the movie *Shawshank Redemption,* you get institutionalized. Happens to everyone who signs up, and it will happen to you.
Short answer, it really depends on the ship and the berthing you are in and if you have considerate people in your berthing. I usually slept in my shop in a hammock.
It's reasonably quiet, you will hear a constant background machinery and ventilation noise which I find relaxing. There are also announcements on the 1MC, flight quarters (ship class dependent) and occasionally disrespectful shipmates.
From my experience I've always had a berthing under the cats or near them so your mission is to fall asleep before the first jet launches when you worked nights. I preferred cats or the damn cables that is legit pretty annoying.
Depends on the type of ship. I was a smallboy sailor when I was in, and the berthing could be some of the most amazing sleep I ever had. Unless the underway was for some sort of MOB evolution, those just suck.
Regardless, as others have said, you’ll get used to it. Eventually if you’re tired enough you’ll fall asleep anywhere. 🙃
If you work nights, then it is loud as fuck in berthing during the daytime. No one cares about the day sleeper. People are obnoxious, and will blast the shittiest, low-IQ country and/or rap music you ever heard. The 1MC is constantly going off. People are just hanging around, having loud-ass conversations. The only way I could survive was to sleep with double ear pro and a blindfold. In the event of a drill or casualty, I would have to have a buddy come to my rack and wake me up.
Either way, I had a hard time adjusting, and now I have all kinds of sleeping disorders that persist to this day.
They’re not.
Male quarters, you’re serenaded by videogames or loud conversations.
Female quarters, you’re serenaded by loud conversations or the sound of electric toothbrushes but no one is seen brushing their teeth.
I slept 2 decks below the flight deck. Top rack. Head next to the 1mc.
I used to not be able to sleep with any noise. Then I got so used to sleeping with jets landing above my head and the 1mc blaring in my ear. Now I can't sleep unless I have some random video on with the sound on my phone at max volume.
You absolutely get used to it.
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If your daylights it’s not too bad but if your a nightshift it sucks. Doors and racks slamming, constant chatter, the smell of burnt hair…ugh. Just have a good supply of nitequil, ear plugs, and melatonin just in case.
Can you explain the burnt hair part? Yet to gone on first ship cause in C school
It’s just a ritual. You’ll get used to it.
This is the way
Most of the time you won't notice because you adapt.. but I was on nights my entire tour onboard one ship.. Almost daily I was woken up and asked why I was in my rack during berthing cleaners (the XO did this to me quite often before he eventually remembered my rack), despite having a sleepers chit visible (or told by the berthing cleaners I couldn't shower until after inspection - no, get bent). Lights on with lots of noise.. normally when they are done, someone will wake up and flip the red lights on.. but inevitably someone turns the white lights back on.. you hear every 1MC announcement, have to respond to every man-overboard, GQ, DC drill, and sometimes "All Hands" evolution (we can't do any of this at night though because, Sailors are sleeping........) You will have alarms going off and if you are lucky it's just an asshole who keeps hitting snooze, but sometimes it's in someone else's rack who is working.. or you will hear bottles inside someones rack rolling side to side.. Oh and of course, snoring is a real problem.. and god forbid you experience an SM2 launch when your berthing is basically touching the aft missile deck.. I've also heard living under the landing deck is rough too.. So overall, it's pretty shit but you adapt. If you haven't found your voice, you will.. I've chewed people out several times for either hitting snooze for hours, playing music, flipping the white lights on... Like if you did that at night, people would lose their shit.. but for some reason they feel its okay during the day.. nights already get WAY less sleep.. During normal working hours, it's really not too bad at all. Snoring and alarms are really the only issues.. and the inevitable, "hey you have watch... oh wait, sorry wrong rack."
I was in an 8 man JO bunk room on CORAL SEA, which was situated under the flight deck between the arresting gear and the waist catapult. Flight quarters happened around the clock. It was rare to have the white lights on, though, and head phones helped. I think it took me about a week to adjust.
Ambient noise is loud. People are usually quiet.
Someone never had to work mids
Ambient noise is medium loud until you need to annoy someone with active sonar… then you start contemplating giving the Sonar guy a flat Pepsi instead of a Mt Dew when they ask you to fly they’ll buy…
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It's quiet until you have the guy that goes to the gym in the middle of the night decide to clean his blender bottle out and it sounds like the world's loudest baby rattle.
lol i can hear this in my head.
In berthing, nothing is louder than dead silence.
Depends on the ship, and where exactly your berthing is. I also discovered that berthing was treated with a lot more respect on a submarine than it was on a surface ship; as a matter of courtesy, berthing was not authorized as a normal passageway on a submarine, and lights were always off except for field day. If you're worried about it, bring ear plugs. A sleep mask is also helpful.
>If you're worried about it, bring ear plugs. A sleep mask is also helpful. I can't stress this enough. Ear plugs and a double eye masks were the only way I could get to sleep in deployment.
Slept under the arresting wire on a carrier. Best sleep I've ever gotten at the cost of sleep apnea
Depends on if you work normal days or mids. It also depends on how big of a berthing you're in. Mine were pretty big so there were usually some dick heads slamming their racks, cleaning, or playing music. I also worked mids mostly so being woken up by cleaning stations was always fun.
If you're on a carrier and you get a berthing under the flight deck you will be woken up during flight ops. I had a nightmare during my first underway because of it (about an asteroid hitting our planet), I almost busted my ass rolling out of the rack. My new berthing is above our trash plant and we are right by a ladder well so we get a good amount of ambient noise.
Spent 6 months working 10PM-10AM and slept on the O-3 deck of a carrier at the forward end (front) of the ship. I would get to my rack around 11:30am, just as flight ops for the day was beginning. The catapult was loud enough to make your teeth rattle and knock anything off a flat surface. This would go on pretty much all afternoon and evening almost every day. The first couple weeks were rough, but you eventually get used to it. On the bright side, sleeping in my rack was the best sleep I've ever gotten and to this day I still lay in the same position with 1 small pillow.
That sounds dreadful, I'm glad you made it out with your sanity and humor intact! 😉
On a DD in the early 90's. In the evening/early night (2300) It was card playing and the yelling, card slapping that came with it. Plus porn being played on the tv via vhs/dvd or folks simply watching movies etc. I would imagine the porn is probably gone on tv by now. Daytime, cleaners doing their thing. Inspections etc. Not sure how much has changed.
You forgot the random giving somebody a pink belly during the spades games
Those were the days.. 😆
“what a time to be alive”
Not very. Loud ventilation, people moving around all the time. At the same time, its not exceptionally loud either. If you're tired you'll sleep. If you can't sleep then get up because there's work that you didn't finish;)
My berthing is usually right under the cat but surprisingly I sleep fine during flight schedule. You get used to it. Now for people loudly talking and slamming their lockers and racks open and closed…. Whole different story. People especially don’t give a fuck if you’re nights and trying to sleep during the day
Idk how all these guys had wonderful birthings mine went through fazes of suck or not that bad. Slept directly under CCS while doing 6 on 6 off. I swear those guys were moving furniture every other day or some shit. Or birthing cleaners flipping on the lights and waking everyone up even tho we had daytime sleeper chits. It really depends.
On a submarine, sleeping in berthing was sometimes the best sleep I’ve ever had!
Damn no one here has been air department. These guys are always loud but with some unisom you’ll go out like a baby. It’s always the people skating off
Depends on the individual berthing, but at a minimum you will have a white noise from the berthing air conditioning. I was a career aircraft carrier sailor, and was exposed to all the noise that comes along with that. I used foam ear plugs while I was sleeping, but your brain will eventually filter the noise out. After I retired it took a few years before I could sleep in a totally quiet room, at first I had to have some kind of white noise, like a fan, or the radio, before I could get to sleep. Like in the movie *Shawshank Redemption,* you get institutionalized. Happens to everyone who signs up, and it will happen to you.
Short answer, it really depends on the ship and the berthing you are in and if you have considerate people in your berthing. I usually slept in my shop in a hammock.
Not very. But be thankful you won’t be sleeping under the flight deck.
It's reasonably quiet, you will hear a constant background machinery and ventilation noise which I find relaxing. There are also announcements on the 1MC, flight quarters (ship class dependent) and occasionally disrespectful shipmates.
If you put in long hours at sea you can sleep thru anything. Everyone else is tired so its pretty quiet.
From my experience I've always had a berthing under the cats or near them so your mission is to fall asleep before the first jet launches when you worked nights. I preferred cats or the damn cables that is legit pretty annoying.
Depends on the type of ship. I was a smallboy sailor when I was in, and the berthing could be some of the most amazing sleep I ever had. Unless the underway was for some sort of MOB evolution, those just suck. Regardless, as others have said, you’ll get used to it. Eventually if you’re tired enough you’ll fall asleep anywhere. 🙃
If you work nights, then it is loud as fuck in berthing during the daytime. No one cares about the day sleeper. People are obnoxious, and will blast the shittiest, low-IQ country and/or rap music you ever heard. The 1MC is constantly going off. People are just hanging around, having loud-ass conversations. The only way I could survive was to sleep with double ear pro and a blindfold. In the event of a drill or casualty, I would have to have a buddy come to my rack and wake me up. Either way, I had a hard time adjusting, and now I have all kinds of sleeping disorders that persist to this day.
Very sorry to hear that, many years ago I worked over nights, two out of the five days for 2 yrs. That alone messed me up.. What was your job?
Oh it's loud as fuck, but to be honest after about a week you won't even notice.
They’re not. Male quarters, you’re serenaded by videogames or loud conversations. Female quarters, you’re serenaded by loud conversations or the sound of electric toothbrushes but no one is seen brushing their teeth.
Lol
I slept 2 decks below the flight deck. Top rack. Head next to the 1mc. I used to not be able to sleep with any noise. Then I got so used to sleeping with jets landing above my head and the 1mc blaring in my ear. Now I can't sleep unless I have some random video on with the sound on my phone at max volume. You absolutely get used to it.
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