Trust me, we’ve been called worse.
Yeah, my space was on the flag bridge also.
Most of the ships we went out on, ships company hated us. I was on a destroyer once for a short trip. We bolted the quick-van on the helo deck and used the hanger as berthing space and office space. Completely off limits to ships company. They weren’t allowed aft of the ASROC deck the whole time we were on board. The helo deck was their basketball court and jogging track. The hanger was their theater & gym where they watched movies, worked out, and played cards. They absolutely hated us. Plus, we didn’t stand watches for unreps, etc., and always had head-of-the line on the mess decks. We were all lucky to get off that tin can alive. It was the Robert H. McCard, DD-822 in 1971. Most everywhere we went, we disrupted somebody. Nobody liked having us on board, unless it was a CVA, then we were ships company. I remember on the JFK, our spaces were under the starboard CAT. What a nightmare. Gear would never stay in sync, everything on a flat surface vibrated onto the deck. The noise alone would deafen you. Flight Ops was not our favorite time.
On a gator, especially a fairly big one like an LPD, hating riders is a pretty pointless exercise. You would only end up exhausted from the effort.