Oh, I had a blast during my time in- you worked hard in any branch of the service, aside from maybe most of the Air Force- but you played even harder. And so long as you're not a complete idiot or actively try to get in trouble, you usually were OK.

Heh, the head of my rack was at the stop of Cat 3. Sleep? Yeah, you get used to the noise. I can pretty much sleep anywhere as a result.

Ah yes, the different spanks for different ranks issue.

You're a PFC with a .09 DUI, you're out in 3 months. You're a Captain who crapped on the grass on TDY at a base, get a PFC to clean it up. You are another Captain who destroyed a hotel room with over $2K in damages, get re-assigned to run an intel company so they can cover your problem up. You are E-2 who dings a TMP, you get a statement of charges. Female Major sleeps with a E-4, not a problem. Male SGT in the same platoon, but not same section sleeps with an E-4, UCMJ.

Not to mention being able to fall asleep impossibly quickly. Every girlfriend I've had since my shipboard days has been amazed at how quickly I can still fall asleep when the opportunity presents itself.

I've literally took a nap as mortars were being fired less than a 100 feet from me. Yes, service members can sleep anywhere.

I hope you didn't do that during or after.... LOL!

So it's not okay for a male Lt. on the DDG to sleep with a female Lt.?

They are both being punished for breaking the rules, that's what the XO told them.

What's the U.S. Navy policy regarding service members getting romantically involved with each other?

Sex aboard ship is a huge no-no. I'll tell you some amusing stories later about that. As for Navy policy concerning dating, it happens, but it's not supposed to happen between subordinates and their supervisors. And DEFINITELY not supposed to happen between officer and enlisted. Reality is a lot more messy, and again, I could tell you loads of stories. In a lot of ways, being onboard an aircraft carrier was a lot like being back in high school, but with triple the BS when it came to relationships and drama. I had a very hard and fast rule about not knowingly dating/ hooking up with any girls from my ship, and I was VERY hesitant when it came to other military members in general. Again, there's stories there. I found it much easier to see all the members of the opposite sex that I dealt with as my coworkers, friends, buddies, and even adopted siblings, not as objects to get my jollies from. However, a lot of the guys on the ship had the exact opposite view of women in the military.

Kind of hard to defy natural instincts and needs when you are cooped up on a ship in the middle of nowhere for so long.

We weren't sent out there to do the easy things.

On the long ranked list of difficult things to deal with, keeping one's pants on in the interests of maintaining good order and discipline falls waaaay down the list.

This. I honestly never had a problem with it, but then again, the longest I was ever out to sea was 34 days. I personally feel like saying, "men can't be expected to keep their pants on because they can't control their hormones" is the worst possible kind of cop-out excuse.

What does the Master Chief do?

I looked it up here and it got me more confused.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_chief_petty_officer

And THIS is why I was glad, back in my day, there were no women aboard ship. Unfortunately for some, women onboard are a big distraction and they can't handle it and get themselves into trouble.

I spent 102 days at sea for my longest period. Thankfully it was on deck. I can't imagine being below deck for that period.

Edit: CG2015, honestly, it's been my experience that it depends on the Master Chief. Some, work, some don't. Some "manage" some, "AirSpeed". It also depends on their position.

The information about Command, Fleet, etc. Master Chiefs while correct, does not apply to most Master Chiefs. Quite often they run the enlisted men in their division, whatever that happens to be.

During my time on the boat, our Chief Of the Boat (COB) was not the most senior enlisted man on board. Our most senior enlisted man was a Master Chief Machinist Mate running the (nuclear propulsion) MM division. Nukes were not utilized to handle COB duties, so that fell to the senior enlisted man amongst the forward crew.

Just asking because it seems on that TV show, when the XO and the Captain (why they call him Captain when his rank is Commander?) are on 'away' missions, the Master Chief is in charge of the DDG.

Someone on IMDB made a good point. It don't make sense for both the XO and Captain to go on 'away' missions together.

Someone gave the answer comparing it to Star Trek TOS where Kirk and Spock are always gone on away missions.

In on episode, all 3: the XO, the Captain and the Master Chief all went on away missions leaving the woman Chief Engineer, a LCDR, and a LT JG, also a woman, in charge.

Then there is the LT JG, she is always on the bridge. She repeats any orders the Captain and the XO calls out: full ahead flank, turn 3 degrees starboard, sound general quarters, etc etc

Is that standard procedure?

I understood few navy terms. Airdale = Navy pilot Wave = Navy women But what was a Gob ?

The senior line officer would be left in charge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer_of_the_deck

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_%28naval%29