> do they feel like they’re doing valuable work? They answered that question in the article ;) However, for many hundreds of years - longer than the US has ha

> do they feel like they’re doing valuable work? They answered that question in the article ;) However, for many hundreds of years - longer than the US has had a navy - there has been a belief that allowing sailors to put their hands in their pockets would lead to mutinies. And more accidents. I think (hope) we can safely say that there wasn’t an increase in mutinies. But studying the accident rate on ships based on a hands-in-pockets policy is actually valuable work. I hope they publish the results.