When I was in the Navy, the Bosenmate would never allow a rusted anchor like these have - ever even if he put a man over the side every day and paint it.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the paint chipping and painting is done by civilian contractors.
Not that I loved doing those tasks when I was in (cleaning tobacco spit juice out of pad-eyes, etc) but there was something undeniably military about being forced to do jobs as a young man you might never, ever have done as a civilian, and that isn’t always a bad thing.
When you have had your arm up to the elbow in a broken urinal that had black, longstanding, fermenting urine in it, you understand there are a lot of formerly unpalatable jobs that simply aren’t that bad...it widens your horizons a little bit...:)