Dear Nuclear Vinny,
First and most importantly, thanks for volunteering. If you did not care about your service, you wouldn't post your feelings, so I assume you care, so I give you credit for caring.
However, you are at prototype and prototype sucks, always has, always will. That's nothing against prototype, it just happens to be the hardest part of the pipeline for both the trainee and the trainer.
You have two submarines getting the crap cycled out of them and you have a team of individuals assigned to keeping them running and repaired so you can get qualified and out to the fleet. And they also have to train you. When the toy breaks, the babies cry. Its that simple. Bean counters have classes and billets planned years out and everything hinges on that MTS working. Stress levels go through the roofs when the assembly line stops moving and that is what the pipeline is, an assembly line to make nukes.
Suck it up, because I promise you, in a few months after you check in to your new command, all proud, all purty, all motivated, all thank God I am not in Charleston anymore, in your dress uniform and you take that stuff off and get yelled at for being dinq all over again, you will wish you were back at Proto seeing the sun everyday. And then you get to be eng-dinq, and paint, and crank, and be dinq ship's quals, too, and hey, we need you for a tiger team, but I am studying, hey, suck it up nub.
Enjoy your shore duty for what its worth.