Retired US Navy here. Your ship is clean, personnel well-groomed...and unlike us, yours can have beards. We stopped allowing beards in order to allow a better seal for oxygen breathing apparatus face masks. Only in the late 90's did we start having individual washing machines - we'd put them all into big washing machines with three containers that would cycle the clothes through steam-heated seawater, followed by rinsing through fresh water. Our ship's store had a *lot* more food - we Americans have to stay fat somehow, right?.

I also notice on your flight deck, the paint is smooth - I don't see "non-skid". Maybe it's just that part that doesn't have the non-skid. But I'd swear your paint is the same shade of Haze Gray we've used since forever.

I never had a "swim call" (our phrase for 'hands to bathe'), though that's because I was only on larger ships. Good thing, since a lot of US sailors aren't so good at swimming (me included).

Seeing as how you've got two cranes, a flight deck (does your helo fit through that roller door in the back of the superstructure?), and a stern bay door, I suspect your ship's mission is for amphibious support. I could look it up, but I'll just go with my guess for now.

Your ship is either diesel- or gas-turbine-powered, so it wouldn't be for me - I was a steam plant engineer.

And in case all the above didn't make it clear, I miss being underway...at least until I see my grandson again, at which point I forget all about being haze gray and underway....

Thank you very much!