My Navy nephew has his orders to report in January to the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) as a tactical action officer. He’ll be working below decks in a room like this one coordinating weapons and sensors. Sounds like fun. Not as personal as the infantry, of course, but he will have plenty to do whilst being part of a large weapons platform that also makes a big target. The 45-year-old Big E, BTW, is not named for the starship (although its unofficial nickname is "the starship") but for a WW2 carrier and, going back to 1755, a single masted sailing vessel that fought in the American Revolution.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Let’s wish him a safe tour of duty. And I suspect that 90% of the time it’s pretty dull – like it should be.
The most fun it’s when one has to defuse a live mine. Gets your blood really moving 😉
Airforce pukes will never know how it is in real life.
Hope he has a safe tour. Air Force helped me out a few times in Nam.
Snoop’s a combat engineer, Joe, so partial to the ground troops. Carriers are never dull, I’m told, as they’re launching and recovering planes 24/7.
I understand that a carrier is a city within itself. The only problem is that it is pretty cramped. Really like a seaborne airport.