Would you recall those things easily or could it require some effort?
I know you liberals want to control every aspect of our lives, but up to now you still can't control our brains.
Depends on the situation. If it was for everyday stuff like what did I eat, or what did I wear on the last Tuesday of June, I'd be hard pressed to come up with the answer.
However.....................if it was something that was outside of the normal day to day routine, or if it was something important, I'd remember it. There were many times during my Navy career that I had to remember situations from a few months to a year before. But, that is because I was in Administration.
Maybe you should have run the FBI, because even James Comey had to write down everything said in a meeting; even just between two people.
That is part of how I did it. Ever heard of something in the Navy called a "wheelbook"? It's a small notepad that a lot of people used like a work diary. Not only did it help me keep organized, but, if something came up from a while back, all I had to do was go back to my wheelbook from that time, and look up the information. If you were a 2nd Class or higher, you were expected to have one, especially in the squadron I was in.
So what you are saying is that without such a notebook, it may be reasonable to forget thing?
Depends on how important it was at the time. I was blessed with a pretty decent memory, and when I was just an E-3, my supervisor did a lot of quizzing and training with me. One of the things I had to do was manual changes. About every quarter or so, MILPERS would come out with new changes to the manuals, and I would have to page check and change the whole thing. One of the benefits of that was that I found out the new changes before everyone else did, and I used that to my advantage when June (my supervisor) was quizzing me. He would come up with a scenario, ask me how to fix it, and then bet me a coke that I was wrong. A lot of times, because I knew the changes before June did, I would win the bet, and, I got used to absorbing large amounts of information.
That was part of the reason I was allowed 2 back to back independent duty tours. One was on a civilian MSC vessel where I was the only PN, and the other was running a MEPS in Amarillo. Yes, I was that good.