Hey, my second boat as well...to be honest, it was pretty bad when I got there. Mare Island brings back some gruesome memories...before they got new barracks built there they housed us in these WWII wooden barracks, brutally cold in the winter. Apparently when I got there, they had failed their last ORSE and things were still messed up. Nuke ET weekly preventative maintenance kept getting put off to the end of the week, making life unbearable and no one was getting their quals done. The chief at the time left on vacation, so the first thing I did was try to set the engineer straight, had all the maintenance forms ready for his signature first thing on Monday morning, finished all maintenance by Tuesday afternoon. That's the way to get it done when you're in the yards. Got most of the ET division back on track with their sub quals as well. Then the chief came back and it was back to things as usual...(oh well, enough ranting about the Hammerhead)...