Duty Day 2024 is on Monday, November 11, 2024: What is a soldiers typical day (active duty)?

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Your day to day schedule depends mainly on your job in the Army. Most of the army does PT (physical training) starting at 6 or 630 AM. After 1-2 hours of that they get some time to get a shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, and most have to report back to work at 9AM. After that what you do for the rest of the day depends on your job. If you have a job that is only used during combat (infantry, artillery, etc) you will spend a lot of time doing training like shooting ranges, land navigation courses, hand to hand combat, cleaning and maintaining weapons, and other stuff like that. If you have a job that is used in the Army all the time (medical workers, cooks, administrative jobs, aviation, etc) you will go to work and do what ever needs to be done for the day. The time that you get to go home also depends on your job. Some people have set office hours (usually 9AM-5PM) and some jobs have varied hours that may let them go home after lunch one day and then the next day they may have to work 14 hours or more (usually that is aviation jobs).

Deployments are a different world and again your hours depend on your job. Some jobs require 24 hour shifts, and then they get 12-24 hours off, and other jobs have the same set hours. Prior to a deployment every one will work a lt of long days getting equipment and people ready to deploy. When you get back from a deployment you get some time off, but you will put in more long days when your equipment gets back getting it fixed up and ready for your next deployment.

Military Duty Days?

I know, I hate it too. We both think it's ridiculous and the idea of "mandatory fun" is beyond strange.

However, we do attend when mandatory. There's a brief appearance, some chit chat, then we leave. We both realize it will look bad and reflect poorly on him as an almost E6 to complain about it and/or not show up. He has to set an example for his soldiers.

I don't know many that enjoy FRG things or the "duty days" but that's part of the package I suppose so just roll with it.

(I never had any job where they forced me to go to the office christmas party and would've hated that as well)

US Navy Duty Day REVISITED ...?

JohnnyMac was special. for one, DH was NOT permanently attached to her, he was DIRSUP out of NSGA. when MCCAIN got underway and had need of an IWO, he went. his team varied.. sometimes they needed CTIs, sometimes they didn't. so when he was aboard he was underway. so he would have several watches per day in addition to his DIVO responsibilities. and of course his twice daily briefing of the CO of what his team was doing( or more accurately what was still broke, what was finally fixed and when he could expect the rest of it toget fixed)

now he PCS affloat tours were ALSO special.. just because he's well.. cursed. see he was part of a Sea Swap crew on ELLIOT and then FLETCHER. so again.. when he wasn't underway and working 22 hours a day, he was decommissioning the ship(s).. and that is a very different ball o wax entirlely as far as duty days for the Officers went. Plus he actually ended up as OPS ( as a DEPT Head) the last few months.

Some COs like to keep the rotation fairly tight. 3, 4 days. if that's the case.. maybe one watch every three or foru duty days( but yes you are still stuck aboard) other like to spread it out.. less people on duty at a time , so more watches per duty day but you go longer.. never seen more than 8 section duty on a Small boy.

he's never been PCS on board anything larger than a DDG so have no idea how Carriers and LHDs/LPDs operate.

seems to me you are overthinking again.. just relax.. what happens happens.. each CO has their own style and own way of running things. hell for all you know you could end up stashed at a shore command for the first 2 years cuz there is zero room for you at sea. there were Ensigns at NPS with us already because there was no open slots on Sea Duty for them.