It's summer vacation time for college students. So we've got a bunch of them aboard this float! We've got about thirty midshipmen here. Some are students at the U.S. Naval Academy, while the rest are in NROTC programs.

They've each been assigned a bunkmate, whose job they share, along with doing tours of different aspects of ship operation. The ones that are going to be sophomores and juniors are with enlisted buddies; the seniors are with junior officers.

Flight operations is something they're quite interested in, of course. We're the coolest thing on the boat. So every couple of days, two or three check out the safety gear for the flight deck, and check things out. Nothing unusual. Except a few days ago, the two best-looking female middies were getting gear, and somehow word spread, and before you know it there were a dozen young Marine officers in the shop, all talking loud and puffing up like birds at a lek. Funny stuff.

Also, the order providing rules for our shore liberty had a clause I'd never seen before: "No personnel shall have sexual relations with any midshipmen during liberty periods." That cut off a line of speculation in the enlisted berthing... because they're not comissioned yet, it's not fraternization, is it?

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