RPF schedule:
6:50 AM Wakeup
7:00 - 7:10 Muster (roll-call and announcements)
7:10 - 7:30 Breakfast
7:30 Roll-call in the course room
7:30 -12:30 Study and auditing: No scheduled breaks, always arguments of being hungry and not fully able to study effectively. You have to sneak out and quickly get down some food that you managed to stash away in your locker or other hiding place, usually leftover food from lunch or dinner the day before.
12:30 - 12:50 Lunch
12:50 Muster with the RPF I/C, announcements and organizing for working "on the decks", etc.
1:00 PM - 6:00 Hard work on the decks, usually construction, renovations or cleaning.
6:00 - 6:20 Dinner (Last and 4th seating on the base, when all other 600 staff from all the orgs are done eating. RPF also has to clean up, take out garbage, take all the serving dishes to the galley, etc.)
6:20 - 6:40 Muster/roll call. Sometimes with the RPF I/C, not always.
6:40 - 8:20 Back to construction and cleaning work. The time on the decks is 8 hours and 5 hours study. One has to "work hard" to "earn your own redemption" to be able to get back in the group. Your hard work is supposed to upgrade the buildings and the environment and thereby create income.
8:20 - 8:50 Clean up tools, complete I/P projects and transport back to the base if away on some other work site.
8:50 -9:10 20 minutes to take a shower with another 50 or so guys in about 8 stalls. The showers are on the 6th floor and all RPFers have to take the stairs and can not use the elevator unless approved by the Medical Liaison Officer and the RPF I/C. (Few are approved.) In other words, the guys that have been on the program for a few years have been running up and down those stairs to the top floor over a thousand times!
9:10 - 9:30 Clean berthing area.
9:30 - 9:50 Muster with the RPF I/C, sometimes longer (until 10:00).
9:50 - 10:10 Brush teeth, prepare to secure. In some of the rooms where 30 to 50 people are berthed in 4 tier bunks, this involves sharing a bathroom and standing in line to slide into your bunk, as there is not room for more than few at a time to get into bed.
10:15 Lights out. Per the schedule RPFers are entitled to 7 hours of sleep in order to be able to study and go in session to get through the program. This is usually enforced and rarely compromised with. There is basically NO TIME for anything else; you are supposed to write the few letters and personal things you need to handle in the 20 min lunch and dinner break! This is when you are standing in line for 5-10 minutes and only get 10-15 minutes to eat! You literally have to shove it down your throat and run to the next muster.
This is the basic schedule for an RPFer "on the decks". Sometimes it changes, like when someone got the fabulous idea to have us all get up at 5 am so that we would be even less likely to be seen by the other staff. Nobody was "sessionable" at that ungodly hour, so they eventually changed it back. Other times there might be a Hill 10 or a special project, and then study time is cut back or canceled.
There is a smaller RPF unit called the Tech Unit, these are the RPFers who have advanced on the program and are well into or near the end, and are now acting as Course Supervisors, C/Ses and Co-Audit supervisors for the rest of the RPF. If you are in the Tech Unit your 8 hours of deck time is cut down to 3 as you have to spend the other 5 hours supervising and assisting the other ones on top of your own 5 hours of study.
The only person who is not in the RPF is the RPF I/C himself, who is posted in the Qualifications Division of the CLO (Continental Liaison Office) and responsible for getting everybody through and graduated. His final "product" is someone who graduates. His stats haven't been very good the past few years, especially with so many bogging down at the end on the new "Final Assessment". I wrote about it earlier. (It is basically an extensive sec check on disagreements with Management, DM, etc.) So maybe he should CSW to have his stat changed to "Offloads, Fitness Boards and SP Declares"!
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