Yea, I was either 6 on 6 off or 5 on 10 off on watch plus work day plus drills down in the steam plant, never got to see much as far as flight ops, although they were pretty neat.
Ditto on the tired and sleeping part, I doubt anyone aboard ship was blessed with overly abundant sleep patterns
Its funny, at the time, all I wanted out of the Navy was me
of course looking back it was a great learning experience and classic period of growing up for a ship full of young men, well some grew up anyway