Thanks for the info. We didn’t have an issue that much with ladder traffic on the island. I was a Snipe but I made lots of trips up to the Bridges and even the top of the Island to check on cooling issues. The Old Man and Flag didn’t have to worry about ladder traffic they shared an elevator and I’m serious on that one.
I believe you on the elevator. I wasn’t Navy (almost, though), but even in the Clancy novels, flag quarters were described as being lifted wholesale from some Arlington mansion, save only for the rat’s nest of haze-grey plumbing on the ceiling.