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haele

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90. 72 hours straight; getting ready for underway. Only left to eat or use the head.

Tue Aug 20, 2013, 04:50 PM

Aug 2013

We had a last minute "announced Friday afternoon at 4pm" field change installation they wanted to have for the deployment, and it was just me and and two others for Friday night and over the weekend to do the installation before the ship went underway at 7pm.
Luckily, the last day was "observing operations", so we could get someone on duty rotation to actually run the tests for us; but OMG - I was pretty much cottage cheese brain for about two days afterwards.

You know that nodding "head rolling off your neck and bouncing back on off your shoulders" feeling you get sitting at a really boring PowerPoint presentation?
I had that pretty much constantly going on for a good 30 hours after hour 60 - even when laying down after we were done! Made it very rough dealing with the usual getting acclimated to being underway that first day.

Haele

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20-22, in college. n/t X_Digger Aug 2013 #18

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