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I worked as a civilian engineer for the Navy for many years. When I travelled to support units in the fleet, I have a "rank equivalence" of a comparable officer, so I lived in officer housing or staterooms, ate in the wardroom or officer's mess, used the officer heads and showers. I got to see where my techs lived as well (in enlisted berthing or barracks). It's a different world. The wardroom was tablecloths and china. The mess decks was compartmented trays. Our heads and showers were always clean, with short or no waits. Enlisted heads were often filthy and crowded.
Having said that, the AF is a different world all together. It used to be a joke that AF officers got hazard pay if they deployed to someplace without cable TV. 
Think that is a joke. 
I recall coming out of the field after living in holes for 3 months passing through an Air Force base listening to people complain about having to walk up a floor cuz the washing machine on their floor was broken. Our laundry was Five Guys standing around a garbage pail of water doing a sponge bath. When done washing our cells we threw our uniforms into the water and rinsed out the dirt as best we could. We were going to steal their washing machine as a matter of principle but it wouldn't fit through the door of the bus.
