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As for personnel and accommodations aboard the CGHRD-1065 (I) and regulations and restrictions upon officers

Chapter 10

Crew Accommodations

Personnel Berthing & Accommodations

Staff/Flag Berthing

SpecDet Berthing

CO Stateroom (Commanding Officer)

XO Stateroom (Executive Officer)

CHENG Stateroom (Chief Engineer)

Officers' Staterooms

CMC Berthing

CPO Berthing

Enlisted Berthing

Meal Facilities

Meal Accouterments and Dignity

Sanitation

Number and Location of Sanitation Facilities

Recreation

Health & Exercise/Fitness

Personnel Laundry Facilities

PERSONNEL BERTHING & ACCOMMODATIONS Personnel bunks are either 1-, 2- or 3- tier bunks, and may be located in 1-, 2- or multiple person, unisex cabins, staterooms, berthing compartments. Where possible, Enlisted berthing has bunk areas having sliding partitions to segregate their bunk cubicles from the main compartment. Annunciation systems are within each so that important alerts are less likely to be missed, although extremely exhausted personnel will on occasion miss even the loud General Quarters klaxon and therefore shipmates must check each cubicle and rouse those who might be late to their GQ stations.

CMC BERTHING As with Officers' Accommodations, the Chief Petty Officers have a galley for the preparation of individual and customized meals, separate from that provided for the Enlisted crew members.

MEAL ACCOUTERMENTS AND DIGNITY In UNAUN, unlike in many purportedly "advanced" navies, Sailors most certainly do not eat from "food trays". Converting the name of "Mess Specialists" to "Culinary Specialist" may improve the morale or image of the chefs who prepare meals for 350 to 439 people a day, but it doesn't mitigate the facts that many Sailors are fed fast-food and cattle-style. Such treatment creates a second-class citizenry, and although many navies tend to "reinvent" themselves every decade or so to give their taxpayers and potential recruits a feeling of modernity, the is no denying the fact that to feed Sailors from Fiberglas plates or dinnerware is not very different from prison-like or adolescent schooling environments. UNAUN has a higher regard for its Enlisted personnel. Enlisted personnel drink from glass vessels, not Fiberglas.

SANITATION FURNISHINGS OR FIXTURES There are a number sanitation-related enclosures, fixtures and devices, all of which are unisex. There are NO male-oriented "urinals" as such or used by Western persons. Many of the devices are the soap dispensers, hand-drying stations, and towel bars in the general head areas. There are numerous shower enclosures, lavatories, and wash basins as well as sanitation/hygiene basins in the lavatory enclosures themselves.

The sanitation compartments around the ship, mostly in the berthing compartments, are as follow:

16 washrooms ("toilets" in some Asian and other locations; "heads" in US naval parlance, "loo" in others),

41 showers,

25 lavatory sanitation/hygiene bowls,

31 lavatories, and

57 wash basins

serving a maximum accommodation of 439 berths.

Gray Water and Brown Water Human Sources. Meals, freshwater making, and brownwater and graywater waste management must take into account the number of personnel aboard at anytime, whether the ship is heading into port, or simply sailing around near coastal waters, whether or not the body sailed around has a political government, an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) or any environmental rules governing the presence of vessels). Without riders or supernumeraries requiring the use of extra bunks in the CO (Commanding Officer), XO (Executive Officer, CHENG (Chief Engineer) staterooms, and excluding the 32 personnel in the Special Detachment (SPECDET) which has 1 to 2 officers, there are 339 personnel aboard. When the staff personnel are entirely absent, 5 Officers, 1 CPO and up to 15 Enlisted personnel can be deducted, bringing the personnel count down to 318. And, when the flight department is entirely absent, another 23 personnel (4 Pilots/Officers, 1 CPO, and 18 Enlisted persons) are deducted, bringing the total to 295.

Personnel Laundry Facilities. The ship has three separate laundry systems. The first, in the upper superstructure, is for the exclusive use of the ships officers. The second is near the center of the ship and is for the Chief Petty Officers and the Enlisted personnel.

Officers' laundry facilities. UNAUN has decided that officers will wash and fold their own laundry, tend to their own bunk makeup, and serve themselves family-style from a buffet line. It is forbidden to set up a commissary system in which enlisted personnel are either ordered or tipped for rendering any type of servant, butler, steward, or personal-servitude-like functions. The officers of UNAUN are adults, and in this regard, UNAUN goes to the extreme of slapping in the face any other navy that utilizes enlisted personnel for others who need to personally manage their time better. However, Enlisted personnel from the Messing or "Culinary" department cook meals from a menu, or according to the meal of the day, based on command preference. Therefore, to minimize misgivings at the loss of "perks and entitlements accustomed to in their former "navies", officers aboard UNAUN ships are provided laundry facilities near the officers' staterooms. The laundry is first-come, self-service, with dryers stacked above the washers. This may come as a shock to UNAUN officers who arrive from prior service in the USN. During commission worthiness evaluation (the pseudo-equivalent of a naval academy), UNAUN officers wash and fold and stow their own laundry and are served by themselves in the dining hall. They are not officially told until arrival to their command that they are not accorded and are explicitly forbidden to solicit, pay for or otherwise obtain laundry-handling, dining, or other personal timesaving services from Enlisted personnel. Those who display the temerity to question this edict, or fail to adapt (seethe, hiss or carry themselves in a manner sullen or unbecoming of a UNAUN officer), are fully paid up to the date of separation (not the month or week), stripped of rank and any benefits only partially accrued, and then are summarily stripped from the command and deposited at the nearest civilian air or sea transport facility with a one-way, non-exchangeable, nonrefundable, time-restricted ticket back to their home of origin or home of record, whichever is the latest recorded in their service record.

Chief Petty Officers and Enlisted laundry facilities are Crew and self-service-based. The Crew Laundry is located forward, on the 4th deck. Laundry is dropped down a laundry chute. When the laundry is processed and ready for pickup, the laundry operators ring an annunciator to signal the respective compartments their laundry is ready for retrieval. They then reply and the laundry operators send up. Personnel from the after compartments (CPOs, Air Department, and EB4) must go forward to Main Deck laundry chute in front of Sick Bay to retrieve their laundry. Personnel in EB1, EB2, and EB3 are all located vertically, so they only need position themselves at the laundry chute lift doors in their respective berthing compartments. These personnel choose among themselves and post a schedule for the individual or team who will on a rotating basis collect and carry to the Crew Laundry the various soiled linens. Chiefs' laundry is processed on Wednesdays, while the remainder of the Enlisted laundry is processed on the other days of the week, one day for each berthing compartment.

When the Special Detachment and troops are aboard, their laundry is processed on Sunday or Saturday.