"We put out from this little port on the west side of Scotland. We had fairly smooth sailing for the first couple of days. I was starting to feel sort of confident in my ability to handle something without treads on it."

 "Then it got nasty."

 "We hit this really rough squall line. The boat was bobbing around like a rubber duck in a hyperactive threeyearold's bubble bath. Me and Murphy, we was so sick, we just sort of lurched around the deck like the hunchbacks of Notre Dame, trying to do our jobs between woofing."

 "The skipper, the deck hands and the engineers had all been on surface ships. They just laughed at us, and started rattling off all these tall tales about how they'd all done suchandsuch in much worse weather than this, and had to keep station and accomplish their missions at the same time"Unlike members of the junior service", they usually added, looking at me and Murphy.

 "What can I say - you don't get seasick in a tank!

 Surface warfare characters come from the variety of cruisers, destroyers, frigates, minesweepers, patrol boats, landing craft and support ships (lots of support ships) that make up most of any nation's navy. In the US navy their primary mission is to protect the Aircraft Carriers. In the Soviet Navy, the idea is to sink American ships. Other navies have other missions.

 This section includes both character generation tables and a Surface Warfare Career Guide