drayer has, alas, a point about the rubber-stamp nuke marriages. It's relatively amusing to see how many broken marriages come out of NNPTC, every class has at least one.
And the alcohol thing is... Well, frankly, I thought it was stupid when I went through, but them's the rules. If you want to stick around in the nuclear world, you're going to have to get used to doing things a certain way, according to certain rules, without being able to do a thing about it. I don't know the rationale behind it, to be honest, but I'm sure it's meant to be a leveling effect; barracks outside of NNPTC allow alcohol. At least the ones at Subase Bangor do, as long as it's controlled in a responsible manner.
I'm sure you'll love things like 'no food in the engineroom' or 'no smoking at all (well, okay, you can smoke now, but they're phasing it out)' or any of the hundred-odd small rules that you just kinda get smacked with and have to follow. That's the nature of our business. No hands in your pockets. That's another one I'm fond of. Gotta present that military bearing, after all, nevermind the fact that you've frostbite on your fingers.
