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Off the ship depends on your marital situation and whether your are enlisted or an officer.
For enlisted:
If you're married, you are given family housing, which can be like apartments, townhouses or even just a regular house. If you're not married it's a lot like dorms, with two to four per room, or in small rooms off of a shared living room/kitchen.
How "nice" it is depends on where you are. Some places are using old, horrid places not much better than HUD housing, in other places it's really, really nice. Usually there is a pool and recreation center available for free, and there are always playgrounds for kids.
On-board you get a rack and a locker. The "racks" are like built-in bunk beds, 3 high, where the bed lifts up and there's a long, shallow space underneath for your stuff. It opens rather like a car hood. There's also a book holder at the end of the rack and a personal light and a curtain for privacy. In the lower two racks it's like being in a coffin, but in the top rack you can actually sit up. I always took top rack, no one else seemed to want them, for some reason. The locker, basically the same as a high school locker, is for your formal uniforms (to hang them) and for other stuff you need to store.
Food is pretty much the same either way; cafeteria food. Sometimes it can be very good, other times, well, there is always the salad bar.
Showers on board ship have privacy stalls with curtains. In barracks they're usually similar in style to showers you'd find at public places, ranging from the type you'd find at a public pool to those you'd expect in a private gym.
Everything is usually clean. Military clean. Meaning, very clean. Cleanliness is not an issue.
Officers always get better housing, both on-base and on-ship.
On base they get nice houses, if they have a family, or small apartments if they are not.
On ships they get a small dorm type room which they usually share with another officer, if they are lower-ranked officers. Higher ranked officers get rooms to themselves, and the highest ranked get a whole suite.
Higher ranked enlisted (NCOs) get housing similar to lower-ranked officers, both on ship and on base. |
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