On my first ship, I had the rack (bed) closest to the center of buoyancy. This means it had the least movement while underway.
Lucky you. I had the top bunk with an iron girder 6 inches above my head. Took about 2 times of having to wake up at 4 am and smacking my head on the girder to get the hang of it. Navy had a lot of funny terms, like ‘petty officer’, and ‘waves’ for the female enlisted. Their hat had a suggestive shape and they had a prop emblem on their hat, which is called a screw. Cleverly nasty folks those sailors.
Misery Ship slide!
My one and only time aboard ship was as live cargo in a troop hauler. I always thought it was the USS Juneau (LPD-10), but I’ve been told that wasn’t it.
We boarded from Numazu (Japan) harbor during the leading edge of a typhoon.
The trip to Okinana was as miserable an experience as I’ve ever had.
Even members of the crew were laying on the deck and groaning/puking away all down the passage to the sick bay.
In the troop holds, the deck, at times, was literally awash with prior stomach contents.