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Standing an engine room watch as a rating

USCG-QMED-M4 · The Engine Room · USCG-QMED-M4-A What a rating is actually expected to do below

A watch below is not a shift. A shift ends when the time is up; a watch ends when it is handed over, properly, to somebody who now knows what you knew. Everything else in this lesson is a consequence of that one difference.

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