Been thinking about this a lot and the thing that really gets to me is that when the system is working properly the cadet arrangement is mutually beneficial. I pretty much realized on my first cadet ship that whatever I had been taught in school hadn’t stuck too well or been too relevant and those guys got me up to speed enough that I haven’t felt uncomfortable on a diesel ship sense. Some of them were dicks or crazy but no worse than in any job and they all taught me something. Wet ship, plenty of drinking and carousing ashore, etc., no issues. Typical stuff similar to my field internships in a previous career. It’s super fucked that all this pervert rapist shit has deprived future cadets of this educational opportunity, I didn’t learn a thing hardly on the training ship where I went.
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