Have not been on this site since 2009. I here you, I was prior enlisted 4 years. Just finishing up my 6th year as a SWO on shore duty. Coming from the Air force... I really did have some WTF moments why I am here others where it is rewarding, to now where I am on the fence on resigning my commission or going for more...
I can honestly say, it is command dependent your Ship, and your CO. Again the Airforce and Navy is a different beast, I went from a Airforce E-4 having my own computer, at work and deployment. To doing day to day operations sharing a half working computer, with 25 of guys as a DIVO in a engineering Dept.