SEAMAN PACT to GM - 1 point waiver help!

[JSlattery]

Originally Posted by CTT1(SW)Griffin

Your son wasn't assigned to be a CS during that time, what he was doing is something we on the boat call "Cranking".

ALL junior personnel (including me, as a CT, when I was at sea) have to do about 3-5 months of working down on the mess decks for the CS's. This is because there aren't enough CS's to do everything that needs to get done to feed the crew everyday, so every division on the ship usually sends down either the new guys or the junior folks who haven't done it before. So since he was the new guy and S-division needed bodies, he had to take his turn cranking.

/r
CTT1

As a quick side question, does this happen only ship side or does this happen on Shore Duty as well? (More just curious.)