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55. Captain's masts or I believe the Army calls it "Office Hours" are not infrequent.

Such offenses as drunkenness, mouthing off to an officer, overstaying leave or liberty, fighting, etc. are not unheard of in the military. In the Navy, most of the problems happen in port. It is hard to get in too much trouble when at sea, because in is not uncommon to have a 12-16 hour work day. It leaves time to do the three Ss (shower, shave, ****) and not much more but sleep.

For instance, if you are standing the 4-8 "watch" it means that your day begins at 4:00 AM, "on watch." At 8:00 you are relieved of watch an you go to your regular work station and duties until 4:00 in the afternoon. After that you go back on the 4:00 to 8:00 PM watch. That leaves 8 hours for everything else. Of course the watches rotate and you would only have that situation for once ever three weeks. If you had the 8:00 -12:00 watch, your work day is only 12 hours long because watch and working hours overlap.

"Watches, mean that you are doing the work that you specialize in. It could be monitoring equipment such as radar, sonar, typewriter, or monitoring engineering systems. It is work.

The punishment that goes with a Captain's mast is generally fair so as not to breed too much resentment in the ranks. If you come back to the ship, drunk and disorderly and with a loose mouth, you know what could be coming. On occasion, I came back to the ship quite stewed after an evening drinking beer at the EM club, but I never showed my butt too bad coming back aboard, I may stumble up the gangplank but I always remembered to salute the OOD (even if there appeared to be two of them) and I would then find my rack and go to sleep so I never personally experienced non-judicial punishment. I wasn't an angel, but I managed to stay out of trouble.

As far as being discharged under less than honorable circumstances, I never knew anyone who was. I knew some people who got general discharges, but they were generally medically related and left VA benefits intact. A Court's martial would usually involve some kind of criminal behavior like drugs or serious theft, perhaps striking an officer. By the time you get to a regular duty station, the service has enough invested in you to try to save you, but there are limits that you can't exceed and avoid a DD or jail or both. Sailors got constant reminders of what could happen if you cross the line. I have a vague memory of a publication that came out, I believe, Navy Wide, that named the worst offenders and their punishments. Some of those punishments were for homosexual activities, and at the time, the punishment varied as to whether the offender was and "active" or "passive" partner... This was around 1970.