6 things that annoy Marines on Navy ships

It's important to note that larger ships will have plenty more gyms but on smaller ships, the options are extremely limited. Given the fact that you'll be at sea for a long periods at a time, exercise is crucial. While the option to do cardio-based workouts exists, the ability to lift weights is one that many Marines choose to supplement the other options.

What trips you up is that the Navy sets specific time frames to allow Marines the chance to get their work-out in. The problem is that they take it upon themselves to take the best hours and give Marines the time slots where they'll likely be working. What's worse is you'll find sailors working out during "green side" hours but Lord help you if you get caught during "blue side" hours.

We get it. Every unit on ship MUST give up a few bodies to assist in day-to-day tasks but it doesn't change the fact that Marines get annoyed over having to go sort the trash.

Before you go on ship, your First Sergeant will hammer you with learning Navy rank structure so you can give the proper greeting to whomever rates it. But you'll find gradually that you won't get the greeting back. Now, a Navy Chief isn't required to return your "good morning" but it's usually just common courtesy. This is what separates Marines from Sailors.

If you tell a Marine Staff Sergeant "good morning" they'll return it happily, usually with a "good morning to you, devil dog," but on ship, Sailors will just kind of scoff and keep walking. But rest assured, if you don't give a proper greeting, your First Sergeant will hear about it.

"Breakouts" are when the mess deck needs to get food out of storage so they'll set up a line of Marines and Sailors from one place to another to pass the supplies along in the easiest way possible. The annoying part actually comes at the fault of other Marines. A problem you'll likely face is having to be the on-call Marine for every ship duty, every day.

If you're a Marine grunt on a Navy ship, don't hold your breath waiting for respect from Naval officers because you'll rarely get it, if at all. They'll act like that snobby rich kid you knew in high school whose parents bought them everything and who never had to worry about any real problems, and they'll treat you like the dirty trailer park kid who wears clothes from the second-hand store.

This isn't the case for every officer on ship; some will be pretty down-to-Earth, but plenty will just look at you like a peasant and avoid you like the plague. At the end of the day, though, their job exists to support yours.

A RAS is where another ship pulls up next to yours to send supplies so you don't find yourself starving or throwing a mutiny aboard the USS whatever. This usually comes just at the right time and you'll be able to buy chips or whatever at the store. It's a few hours of work but it's well worth it.

Where the problem lies is that the ship will call upon every available person to line up and help with the effort and the Navy will send people to help but, over time, you'll notice the Sailors have disappeared and only Marines are left.