For one Navy lieutenant, there are certain aspects of life as a surface warfare officer, or SWO, that can't be beat - globe-spanning deployments and pulling into exotic ports. "People join the Navy to see the world," the O-3 with eight years under her belt told Navy Times. "But that's only nine months of your entire cycle on the ship." For SWOs at her level, even those nine months deployed are full of endless paperwork, assorted busywork and zero sleep, in addition to the manning shortfalls and frenzied operations tempo that plague surface fleet sailors of all ranks.
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