Why does the army start it's day at 0001 hours and not at 0000 hours as the navy does?
102202
In the army we always started our logs @ 0000 and closed them out at 2400. so i'm not sure where your getting your info. the time 24:00:00 does, after all, only exist for one second and then becomes 00:00:01
1115547
Primarily to provide consistency in what a certain time means everywhere.   Your day starts in the AM and ends in the PM.    We're all on the same 60 minutes, so ultimately it's not that difficult.
209659
The phase of the moon changes with your location. Here is a page to help you figure it out for where you live...\nhttp://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html
636619
they are not the same rank... the Army/AF equiv of Captain in the Navy is Luitenant.  Navy Captain is the equiv to Col
1043458
First off GO NAVY!!\n Second the NAVY will be deploied anywhere in the world in a moments notice (Sea Air and Land) seams to have rang a bell.\nThe NAVY Spouce is without their otherhalf about 3/5 the time a person is assigned to a ship, or Det. There are support groupes at the bases to help when the spouce if deploied. If assistance is needed MWR and/or a Sister ship/Unit will have persons to assist.\nAnd Lastly GO NAVY!!!
754996
I read an article last week that made me mad. They currently have a paid voluntary army. It's reported that at any given time like even now during this war time that 25% are ALWAYS on vacation! They usually show up on pay day and during important excerizes only 2/3 of them show up.
864564
They're made so the clock corresponds to daylight.  It was convenient to break the world into one-hour zones, which would give you 24.  The zones are determined by state and national boundaries and population concentrations, so they aren't perfectly straight north-south lines.  But the general result is that the sun is always about highest at noon, no matter where you are.  That only leaves the question of how we determine when we move from one day to the next.  That would be the international date line, running down through the Pacific ocean and carefully avoiding almost everything.
117504
It is 3:53pm PST regular time..In the original question that is considered military time.
278323
because there is only 24 hours in a day\n12am = 0000 hrs or 2400 hrs  /////         12pm = 1200 hrs\n1am = 0100 hrs               /////    1pm = 1300 hrs    \n2am = 0200 hrs               /////         2pm = 1400 hrs\n3am = 0300 hrs               /////         3pm = 1500 hrs\n4am = 0400 hrs               /////         4pm = 1600 hrs\n5am = 0500 hrs               /////         5pm = 1700 hrs\n6am = 0600 hrs               /////         6pm = 1800 hrs\n7am = 0700 hrs               /////         7pm = 1900 hrs\n8am = 0800 hrs               /////         8pm = 2000 hrs\n9am = 0900 hrs               /////         9pm = 2100 hrs\n10am = 1000 hrs              /////         10pm = 2200 hrs\n11am = 1100 hrs              /////         11pm = 2300 hrs
778888
This question should not be answered , it is not your business as to any time tables of deployment. if you think you need to know ask some one in 101th Screaming eagles
659478
I think he meant to ask why a day is divided into 24 and not 36 or 48. The actual time would be the same but there would be short intervals. A half hour would end up being an hour. Why divide a circle into 360 or an hour into 60. \n\nHour :- "a traditional unit of time, equal to 60 minutes, or 3600 seconds, or 1/24 day. The custom of dividing the daylight into 12 hours goes back at least as far as the Babylonians, who liked to divide units by 12 because groups of 12 are easily divided into halves, thirds, or fourths. Originally an hour was 1/12 of the time between sunrise and sunset, so summer hours were longer than winter hours. Later, when people wanted to express times at night, it was natural to divide the night into 12 hours as well, making 24 hours in the day. Only after the invention of mechanical clocks, around 1300, did hours became equal intervals marked by clocks. The word comes from an ancient Greek word hora which originally meant a season, especially a religious season, and hence a "defined" period of time. In the Christian church hora came to mean one of the services held at seven specific times during the day, thus establishing the word as marking subdivisions of the day."
388809
geee,  it may have something to do with the fact that there are only 24 hours in a day. I don't think the government can change that.  But, if you want to make your Christmas holiday 48 hours long, knock yourself out.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
854107
Andyoptic is correct.  They use (now) Zulu time (Greenich, England time zone), when they need to relate to Earth time for something.\n\nHowever, most of the time, they are using the mission clock which simply starts at zero when they first lift off.\n\nHours-Minutes-Seconds only.  No days, weeks, months...
299562
Because it is a political decision and not a scientific decision. Daylight savings time is just the government's way of making you get up an hour early.
600219
My husband is also in the military, and he gets paid on the Friday before the 15th and 30th.  He is in the USMC so I don't know about army or navy or guard.  Hope this helps.
1012800
In Stephen Ambrose's D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, he writes, Time magazine reported on June 12 [1944] that "as far as the U.S. Army can determine, the first use of D for Day, H for Hour was in Field Order No. 8, of the First Army, A.E.F., issued on Sept. 20, 1918, which read, 'The First Army will attack at H-Hour on D-Day with the object of forcing the evacuation of the St. Mihiel salient.'" (p. 491) In other words, the D in D-Day merely stands for Day. This coded designation was used for the day of any important invasion or military operation. For military planners (and later historians), the days before and after a D-Day were indicated using plus and minus signs: D-4 meant four days before a D-Day, while D+7 meant seven days after a D-Day.\n\nIn Paul Dickson's War Slang, he quotes Robert Hendrickson's Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins. Many explanations have been given for the meaning of D-Day, June 6, 1944, the day the Allies invaded Normandy from England during World War II. The Army has said that it is "simply an alliteration, as in H-Hour." Others say the first D in the word also stands for "day," the term a code designation. The French maintain the D means "disembarkation," still others say "debarkation," and the more poetic insist D-Day is short for "day of decision." When someone wrote to General Eisenhower in 1964 asking for an explanation, his executive assistant Brigadier General Robert Schultz answered: "General Eisenhower asked me to respond to your letter. Be advised that any amphibious operation has a 'departed date'; therefore the shortened term 'D-Day' is used." (p.146)\n\nBrigadier General Schultz reminds us that the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 was not the only D-Day of World War II. Every amphibious assault-those in the Pacific, in North Africa, and in Sicily and Italy-had its own D-Day. The National World War II Museum's opening exhibition explores the history and lessons of the Normandy invasion. In 2001 a special exhibition will highlight the D-Days of the Pacific Theater, North Africa, and the Italian Campaign
210276
March 14th at 23:35 Universal Standard Time.\n\nI'm including a link to the US Navy site, they seem to have pretty accurate info for such things :-)  Most webpages that try to auto-calculate it get it wrong, apparently the math is rather involved and it falls down to careful measurements.