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(Narrator) The crew is ethnically diverse and come to the Coast Guard from all parts of the United States. About ten percent of them are women who sleep in separate quarters. |
| (Crew) There are only two showers, so there's nothing else to do but wait. |
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(Narrator) Except for the segregation by sex, living arrangements are separated by rank and by department. |
| (Lakin) The ship is broken down into four departments and there are two or three divisions within each department. |
| (Lakin) The four departments are Engineering Department, Operations Department, the Support Department and the Deck Department. |
| (Lakin) Each has their own assigned spaces aboard the ship, their own gear that they have to maintain, and their own jobs and functions on board the ship. |