and about the intercom, it isn't the a full ship broadcast, but merely "the loud intercom of the cafeteria" and though the cafeteria of such a large ship would no-doubt be enormous, at a specified meal time for a section of ranks it would be the best way to send for a soldier. The idea about the personnel radio-devices is good, but I feel that they wouldn't want to spend too much money on anybut, say, those who got in through the officer training program, but I'm not going to get into the navy technicalities right now, as indeed this is fiction and I could very well write about a dancing marshmallow man if I felt like it. But all other suggestions were good, and I'll follow through on them. Thanks for critiquing