Going to ask if anyone has televisions mounted in your rack onboard. My question is if electric fans/clock radio's etc are allowed, why can't a small TV be accepted if the EM'S give it the blessing tag? I fully understand the safety concern but just for a morale standpoint for my shippies. I feel that if the TV is mounted with a proper mount and not just "Bungeed" it would be OK. I would just love to throw in the movie "Notebook" after a hard day....and cry in my rack.

Most guys on our ship get a chargeable miniature DvD player and mount the player in the rack. The EM's inspect/tag the charger, and it's good to go. This way, their personal device isn't plugged in continuously. Seems to work for us.

OS1 Ski

we had some on our cutter, the XO made us take them down. siting that they maybe distracting and unfair to people who may want to use the berthing for what it was intended....sleeping. He said the Cutter provided televisions in the lounges.

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we had some on our cutter, the XO made us take them down. siting that they maybe distracting and unfair to people who may want to use the berthing for what it was intended....sleeping. He said the Cutter provided televisions in the lounges.

Considering the close qurters in the berthing areas I agree, a TV would annoy the hell out of me if I was trying to sleep.

It ain't home. Want to watch TV? Go to the rec deck (or lounge if that's what they are called these days).

When did electric fans become authorized in the rack? Might want to take a look at NSTM 300.

Spend 200 dollars and buy yourself one of those Portable DVD players or use your laptop to watch movies on.

Now hear is another question are headphones authorized for personnel use while u/w?

Yes I have seen quite a few tv's mounted in the racks.

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Originally posted by bmurph_10:
When did electric fans become authorized in the rack? Might want to take a look at NSTM 300.

Spend 200 dollars and buy yourself one of those Portable DVD players or use your laptop to watch movies on.

Now hear is another question are headphones authorized for personnel use while u/w?

Yes I have seen quite a few tv's mounted in the racks.

When I was on the Jarvis were authorized as long as one "ear" was off. and the volume level was at a level that passer by's could not hear it.

We were allowed to have fans as long as they were tagged by the EM's

hell there were probably 5 TV's rack-mounted in 20-man when I was on the Munro.

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When did electric fans become authorized in the rack? Might want to take a look at NSTM 300.

Maybe I need to go check NSTM 300 before running my mouth. Here is partial shipboard elecrical safety training for you all..

300-2.7.3.6.9 Personally owned or non-Navy-standard equipment such as fans, portable extension cords, highintensity
lamps, reading lamps, electric blankets, heating pads, electric power driven tools (except those specifically
used as hobby tools), heat/sun lamps, hot plates and griddles, electric clocks, microwave ovens, portable
extension lights, electric heaters, portable refrigerators, portable air conditioners, and immersion-type water heaters
are prohibited from being introduced and used onboard ship. Adequate government-owned equipment is provided
to meet the needs associated with these items. Non-Navy-standard items of the types mentioned are generally
a shock hazard because of inferior insulation, leakage currents, and flimsy structure

but a few paragraphs before you have this..


300-2.7.3.6.4 Personally-owned equipment/appliances such as portable radios, clock radios, electric shavers,
curling irons, hair dryers, electric curlers, hobby equipment, etc. are not of standard issue. Personal equipment
can be approved for shipboard use when the following conditions are met:
a. Adequate government-owned equipment is not available to meet the need.


Sorry to hijack thread and now to get it back on subject..

Some of the cutters I have been on TV's in the rack others XO said no way..

I appreciate so far all the comments....I guess tomorrow I will need to remove the hot plate/griddle from my rack. I was wondering why five people were coming into my berthing at a time.

I had mine... and loved every minute of it! We were even provided with a cable hook-up.

I had a TV, Playstation, fan, Ipod, laptop, gamecube, NES, etc..on every cutter I have been on without any problems as long as they are tagged by the EMs and you have an approved Navy shipboard surge protector. That is the key as they are over $60 in the stock system and tough to get your hands on; however, most of the crew disregarded that and brought their stuff onboard anyway. For anyone who has been underway knows that all racks have curtains and people bring their headphones to keep from disturbing others. Those that aren't curteous always get their due justice by the rest of the berthing by cruel and justified punishment, which could make another thread in itself...

We were not allowed to mount a TV in our rack either. We were allowed to have portable DVD players. All I did was find a DVD player that had the neat little option that would allow you to flip the picture upside down. Then I got some heavy duty velcrow, not the regular velcrow, HEAVY DUTY VELCROW, and stuck the dvd player right to the top of my rack and the screen folded down. The ET's on my boat lived in the same que as me and ran all the cables from the TV in the berthing area to our que. So when they were watching a movie and there wasn't enough room for everyone on the couch. Could just plug in my DVD player and watch the same movie in my rack..... worked out just fine!

Was this legal?


Probably not.

But is sure made time on that thing go by a lot faster...



On the 270 I just left so long as it was removed for inspections and/or discreetly placed nothing was said about small portable DVD players. Using earphones with one removed at all times kept others from being disturbed by the audio of course.

"S" smith!

Sweet set up! I had a 15 inch, flat screen super velcro'ed to the top of the EEBD box. Believe me, it was completely secure!

I super velcro'ed my Play Station 2 on the side of the wall. I had video games, DVD, and music readily available during my off time and my unit didn't have a problem with it. Even had a little library at the head of my rack above, near the pipes.

The only thing I had to contend w/was the fecal smell because my rack was adjacent to the crapper. I took care of that w/the # 1 fix of the 21st century. I duct taped the hole where the pipe ran from above my rack to the crapper.

Oh, the memories of the Jarvis!

Keep in mind that all lounges on a 210 are in the berthing areas, except the Chief Mess. Portable DvD players and laptops are very common.

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Keep in mind that all lounges on a 210 are in the berthing areas, except the Chief Mess. Portable DvD players and laptops are very common.

Considering the advances in portable electronics it is obsurd to expect our young sailors to leave all their entertainment options on the beach. So long as it does not disturb others in the berthing space, everything is checked by the EM's prior to use, and all personal gear is properly secured in case of emergency (no risk of gear adrift) then I can't imagine why anyone would have a problem with it.

On the Sherman, supply ordered enough fans for the entire crew. We also had a moral network from the old workstation 2 cat5 that was ran to almost every non secure space on the ship. if you wanted a drop to you rack so you could play halo in bed all you had to do was ask. Even the XO would play. There were more crazy "Pimp My Rack" creations on that ship then I could have ever thought possible. People would dump thousands into Flat screens, AV splitters, Coax amplifyers for the satelite signal, game systems...you name it they had it.

The only stipulations were that you had to have an authorized metal power supply stored outside of your rack, everything must be tagged by the EM's, and that nothing could be energized when unsupervised. Violation meant confinscation.

On the Chase, our IT1 was authorized a standalone computer in the top shop. He then went to eceryone on the ship and borrowed their DVDs and burned them to the hard drive. Then he provided the fiber optic cable (all we had to do was run it) to a splitter in each berthing area and from there to our racks. When it was all said and done, each rack could hook up a laptop and have access to over 600 movies at any given time. He also created four different LAN sites in order to host 16 person Halo tournaments. Our CO and XO were going to put him in for EPOY for the rise in moral, but by that time he had PCSed.

I've got a 56" Plasma w/ HD channels in my rack. Sounds like ya'll are just behind the times! By the way, I got a bottom rack too.

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I've got a 56" Plasma w/ HD channels in my rack. Sounds like ya'll are just behind the times! By the way, I got a bottom rack too.

I would like to see a pic of this.