Work for 1st division varies among ships depending on size. On larger ships, the "First" may be in charge of air crew.
On small boats, the "First" is in charge of boatswain mates and deck seaman. On ships equipped with small boats, the First Lieutenant or "First" (First Division Officer or Deck Department Head) is in charge of these boats and the sailors who maintain and run them.
"We have to get up at 0-dark-hundred." It is not a reference to any particular time.
Used to convey that the time is when people are usually asleep. 0-dark-hundred, 0'dark-hundred (pronounced "oh dark hundred", because the "zero" in time expressions was verbally pronounced "oh" in the US Navy and US Army as late as the 1980s: A slang term for any time between midnight and daylight.Navy slang/Unit nicknames.Ĭontents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Note that in the Navy, many ships and units have nicknames these are listed separately, in Appendix:Glossary of U.S. The following are some examples of the slang of the United States Navy, you will also see references to the United States Marine Corps as well because of their use of naval terminology sometimes also referred to as NAVSpeak.