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>sleep 90 people in a room with all your possessions as what you can fit under your mattress
>go underway (deploy) all the time even in peacetime
>lower enlisted get undercooked chicken and crunchy rice, chiefs get gourmet versions of the menu
>got to conserve water, so showers last 90 seconds and are cold water. They are on a timer
>18 hour work day while underway
>You cannot use your tuition assistance until 3 fucking years in when everyone else can use it immediately
>not like you can use it anyways because you're underway and have no internet
>Oh, you thought you'd get sleep? You're on watch now. It smells like piss here because the last guy pissed in the pipes since he's not near the head
>hotbunking if you're on a sub
>you're stuck here, you couldn't even walk away if you went mad. You're in the middle of the ocean
>Gotta keep up physical standards? so does the other 3,000 people on the ship. Enjoy sharing the small bedroom sized gym between you all
>here's 6 uniforms you have to maintain, we will not give you enough money to do so, one of them is white and you live on a barge covered in crude oil everywhere
>Shore leave? You got 5 hours/You're on watch/you're on inventory. Seeing the world is just seeing the 70% that is water
>Free time? chip the paint off the boat
>Free time? repaint the boat
Could go on. Boat life is ass. There's a reason they used to kidnap people to do the enlisted side of things and use the Marine Corps to force them to do it at gunpoint