Agreed 100%, it should be across the board. I'm private sector were the rules get twisted.
Yeah, private sector can be quite screwed up. The ass yardbirds I 'escorted' off the ship for doing drugs, snorting coke in the lower ram room of after steering on the birdfarm, had been
busted before. I told them at the yard barge, I would throw them off from the flight deck if I caught them anywhere aboard ship. The guys were still there and the leader of the group made a face at me and bowed up. I quickly reminded him that we could finish this right here and now. .......They did look pretty bad from our 'escorting' to the barge. He backed down after glancing at the pipe wrench I still had in my hand!
I was still seeing red from these asshats working on a critical system doing drugs
on my god damn ship!
........then the CHENG(ship's chief engineer) walked in as I said that!
I guess the OOD informed him as I left the quarterdeck with them.
Thankfully, he backed me up. I admit, I was walking on thin ice with what I did to them, but with their drugs in hand, actually I threw in on the yard supv desk I was in front of, but with drug charges possible, it's doubtful they would have pursued charges against me. CHENG was HOT, thankfully not at me. He told them he wanted a list of every job these asshats worked on.
I was a little disappointed I never found any of them on board.