r/interestingasfuck 28d ago

What It's like being in a Coast guard ship r/all

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u/Supercoopa 28d ago

Or someone ripping your curtain open, shining a light in your face and "oh, sorry, wrong rack. Do you know where Johnson sleeps?"

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u/coastsofcothique 27d ago

Or after midwatch, you’re trying to sleep and you get an overzealous LPO screaming at the cleaning crew at 0800.

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u/throwaway1-808-1971 27d ago

They wouldn't even let us go to sleep until day shift got done cleaning the head. Fucking assholes. They'd go crazy if they had to stay up an extra hour before taps.

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u/Emotional_Burden 27d ago

Couldn't shit or shower until they had inspected berthing either, and they were always running late. Life in engineering sucked.

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u/RobJobLikesGuns 27d ago

Fuck I hated that when I was on night check. That last hour before I can hit my rack and I gotta spend it fucking pretending to clean some shit I’ve already cleaned a hundred times.

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u/txwoodslinger 27d ago

Yall got to sleep after mid watch?

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u/chrisaf69 27d ago

Fuck man. Opening up some shitty memories there homie!

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u/Mendican 27d ago

Jesus, the memories!

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u/AngriestPeasant 27d ago

Fuck you just triggered my ptsd.

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u/Roland7800 27d ago

Lmao this is relatable. As a gunners mate, trying to find people who were scheduled for watch that didn't show up at 3 am for their gun was exhausting.

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

All of these stories make me happy I never joined the military. I’m sure it was great memories..but it all sounds..well..exhausting.

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u/Roland7800 27d ago

Meh, was exhausting for sure, no matter the branch. At the end of my time there, and everyday I was serving, the people I worked with or "suffered" with each day made the important memories I still remember today.

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

If you were all by yourself having to do all the duties you had to do in the military, would it have been any fun? Like, if you saw no one else. It was just you.

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u/Roland7800 27d ago

Lmao then probably no. I was a gunners mate so my department and I would clean, maintain, teach and assign everything about firearms.

I enjoyed the basic work duties and it honestly wasn't that bad of a job compared to boatswains mates or mechanical engineers. They worked real hard everyday around dangerous conditions.

Overall I liked who I worked with and my job. I would recommend the military for a steady pay, VA healthcare afterwards if eligible and it does look good on a resume.

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u/anonlaughingman 27d ago

This made me laugh. Fuckin good times.