Partially it´s me low key hating. I know a guy down here with a checkered career in the navy ( had at least one DUI and still retired) he made a fortune with MSC he tried to get me to join.
shyt could be wildly different I knew a Legalman who was assigned to Aviation should´ve been cake but his berth was near the flight deck so it was loud and hot since he was in the middle east.
Another guy was the cook for the Admiral so he had a cushy number until he got kicked out for being fat and not being able to swim.
My issue is I can´t stand being around people all the time it´s like being in Jail to me. When I was deployed I could´ve gotten out of going on some missions but I went out just to get the fukk off the base especially the tiny ones.
Same nikka that made a fortune in MSC was trying to get a house with me. I questioned why in the fukk would two Men get a house together no matter the size. I put that up to about 30 years of being in fart filled cabins.
That´s another thing I was working on a partially submerged sub and a dude was working on the other bulkhead and the nikka farted. I felt the heat before I smelled it The room got at least a degree hotter then I smelled it it lingered for at least ten fukking minutes. nikkas on attack Subs gotta spend weeks off the coast of North Korea with nasty nikkas on Burrito night.
Like I said, it all depends.
Depends on what you chose to do as well. I came in trying to be a CS just because I was already working at a bar as a cook. Got pretty high test scores and they moved me to RadioMan (aka IT/Comms). But I chose that because I didn’t know wtf the other shyt they offered was at the time and I had already went to school for computers and got certified.
My first duty station wasn’t at sea either, because I got top of all the schooling shyt. But when I got on one it wasn’t all that bad to me but I wasn’t ships company. My schedule was basically Eves/Mids or whatever so ship was pretty much dead when I would get off.
Berthing was pretty much dead when I was awake. I don’t remember the coffin racks being crazy either. That top rack sucked idc if you could sit up or not. It was cold af up there and loud af. Was definitely not doing the floor shyt so I grabbed a middle rack and was chilling. I had my laptop with thousands of movies on external so I would just do that shyt until it was time to do something.
My new berthing was chill too since engineers were basically never there except to sleep. So it all depends on random shyt imo.
And only subs do that hot-racking stuff you described and 90% of the navy is like hell nah.. subs are some different shyt even to most of us.
And yeah, it’s like jail a lil bit, especially on an all male ship (but it’s less bullshyt without women around). Workout, sleep, work, repeat. I worked with the spooks so I was mainly only around them.