quality of life????? what a joke...true story, I was on the Kennedy, and we were having those breaded fried fish square thingies for dinner...got mine, sat down and tried to put a fork in it...fork would not penetrate the breading....tried a knife, knife would not penetrate the breading...picked it up and tried to break it in half, it would not break...finally grabbed it with both hands, and smashed it against the side of the table, and it broke in half...there was nothing inside, it was just breading fried to a concrete like finish....
John F Kennedy has some serious problems. The ship was so poorly maintained that the CO was pretty much drummed out of the navy and the ship was retired earlier than expected. I expect that the problems started quite a bit earlier than that.
Quality of life on board US Navy ships is much better than it used to be as far as ship's structure and facilities.