Here is a mental excercise for those of you who never served on a boat.
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Image...
It is dark...
... you are sound asleep.....
and someone rips back the curtain on your rack, and you are violently shaken awake. The first thing you see standing there are 2 crewmen in full canary suits (radcon suits for you non-quals), EAB's and berthing lights full on (they are ALWAYS off underway).
The very next thing you here is a LOUD say "Oh SH*T, this one is still alive, quick, get him in a mask".
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What is your FIRST reaction? Really, think about it, what would you think or do?
We did this to a dink nub sonar guy at the behest of his LPO. This guy crapped his pants right there. Screamed like a girlie man as well. Banged his head so hard on the rack light he required stitches.
The reason lights were on? It was field day (friday about 8:30am) and this guy thought that he deserved sleep more than anyone else. His own divmates also let it be known that he had been watching the midnight movie rather than sleep or work on quals.
He learned a few lessons that day. The biggest one is that there is NO SYMPATHY for you if you are dink. None. The Doc told him that had he been awake, he would not been able to bang his head. The COB wanted know why he was in his rack 30 minutes after field day started.
The Eng wanted to know why we were not in the bilge cleaning
