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Most sailors will serve aboard ships much of the time, but it isn't a hard-and-fast rule.

I myself am a retired U.S. Navy officer having served for 21 years, and have never been to sea. But I was assigned to a Navy Patrol Squadron flying the airliner-sized P-3 Orion patrol aircraft. I've only spent three nights aboard a ship in my life! And my friends tell me that my nights aboard ship don't count, because it was on the R.M.S. Queen Mary, which is welded to the pier in Long Beach, California. But I say a ship is a ship!

Jokes aside, many Navy jobs are in support roles ashore.

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