On 1/6/22 04:30, Evyn MacDude - evyn.macdude at gmail.com (via tml list)
wrote:
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> On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 10:14 AM Jim Vassilakos - jim.vassilakos at
> gmail.com <http://gmail.com> (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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>     This Traveller PBEM is forcing me to consider a lot of questions
>     about how things work in the Imperial Navy, and having no military
>     experience, I often feel like I'm fumbling in the dark. One
>     question that came up recently concerned watchkeeping.
>
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> Aw, standing watch, let me tell you standing around waiting is a
> bitch. You have to pay attention to whatever the watch covers. Four
> hours is a long time. Couple that with your duties that need to be
> done everyday while not on watch. With the number of watch sections is
> generally controlled by the size of the crew rated to stand that
> watch, engineers and deck often have vastly different watch schedules.
> --
> Evyn

Evyn, Jim,

How would Evyn's comments on wildly-divergent watch schedules interact
with whether the (presumably Third) Imperial Navy in that PBEM takes
after more a Commonwealth model, where (frinstance) warfare and
engineering officers are whole different careers with (I think) little
lateral movement between them, or the USN's more unrestricted model?

Alex