If you call swabbing decks in the navy interesting.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you have to be pretty damn good to get a assignment on a sub.
All personel are cross trained and everyone swabs decks at one time or another.
My point being that the nuke kid done good in my book, by getting that assignment.
You cannot and should not try to take that away from him and now I question your motives regarding this story.