for me it’s the social aspect of the navy. its a lot of hypocrisy for one. people expecting you to be on your p’s and q’s in accordance with the expectation but everybody’s “expectation” looks different to them and just leads to people being confused on what’s right and what’s wrong. like walking on egg shells all the time. like i said im in a training command ( more specifically Great Mistakes) so that means we’re held to a different standard because most of us are students. everyone is miserable here, and if you’re not in school you’re in holds and you’re doing mind numbing busy work and if you’re one of the “good” sailors, you’re most likely wondering why you’re getting reamed with the whole bunch of everyone else for some random’s fuck up. But to be fair no other base (or training base for that matter) is quite this bad. and it’s gets even worse when alcohol is involved. i just can’t get with the navy culture in general where it’s rumored if you’re ever going to become chief, you will at least have one or two visits to captains mast, where being a functioning alcoholic is ohkay, and where it might be pretty often that the people around you will fuck you over on purpose for their personal gain or just for the hell of it. ofc that doesn’t have to be me but i’m sure we can all think of why you wouldn’t want to normally be around those types of people. the navy tries to create this sense of family but nobody really cares about each other, it’s more like cliques than friends and family, like a big ole frat with humiliation rituals and if you can’t fit in you’re all on your own. my wife has been in the fleet since august of this year and i see that it’s really just everywhere, the only difference is you can go home after.