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The Navy Will No Longer Restrict Sailors To The Brig On Bread And Water JEEZE!! I DIDN'T KNOW THIS PUNISHMENT STILL EXISTED!

According to the Department of the Navy Corrections Manual, "Confinement on Bread and Water (B&W)... may be imposed as punishment upon personnel in pay grade E-3 or below, attached to or embarked in a vessel."
Article 15 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice outlines the punishment further:
• It may not be implemented for more than three consecutive days.
• Rations furnished a person undergoing such confinement shall consist solely of bread and water. The rations will be served three times daily at the normal time of meals, and the amount of bread and water shall not be restricted.
• The medical officer must pre-certify in writing that a deterioration of the prisoner's health is not anticipated as a result of such action.
• Prisoners serving this punishment will be confined in a cell and will be bound by the procedures set forth for disciplinary segregation cells. They will not be removed for work or physical exercise.
While the Bread and Water punishment sucks and does seem rather archaic, it's hardly the worst punishment that can be handed to a sailor at Captain's Mast — especially for an E-3 or below.

Needless to say, although the punishment sucks, some commanders used it on rare occasions as a way of correcting sailors’ bad behavior while saving them from losing stripes or forfeiting pay. Others, however, such as Capt. Adam Aycock of the USS Shiloh earned his ship the nickname of USS Bread and Water due to his doling out the punishment at least six times over his command, Navy Times reported. [/QUOTE

I have personally been confined to the brig of USS Enterprise on three days’ bread and water.
It’s not exactly all you can eat. It’s served to you three times a day - a brig guard comes to your cell and asks how many slices of bread you want, and how many of the small cups of water. About a half hour later he arrives with the requested food. You’d better eat it all.
The first time it’s almost funny. The second time, it’s like “Hm. Bread.” The third meal, you’re bummed as f*ck. After that, you get creative - you make bread sandwiches and bread tacos and breadrolls and everything you can think of to make it not-bread. Eventually you kinda get off bread, and eat less of it.
But it really does mean bread. And water. And that’s it. I wasn’t left to go hungry - at no time during my sentence did I feel the slightest hunger pang. But what a way to reinforce that yes, you are being punished. If you’re in a jail cell at sea on bread and water, you messed up royally and there is no justification or explanation around it.
I deserved it. It was probably rock-bottom for me. I was released from the brig during mid-rations, just after midnight, and that first meal of leftover beef noodles was probably the finest meal I’ve ever eaten - better than any steak-and-crab-legs I’ve had since.

MY OWN BROTHER WHO ONCE SPENT TEN DAYS IN THE BRIG FOR 'DISRESPECT TO A SENIOR OFFICER' CONSULTED WITH ME ON THIS POST... https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/10/09/uss-bread-and-water-punishment-loomed-over-a-demoralized-crew/