Well Sir, I got out as an O-5, Commander. I spent 9 years with the VF 143, Hence the Virtual 143 I command.
The "retirement" was on the same basis as a med retirement, but was for something else. In short, my actions toward an enlisted man earned me a letter of reprimand that has completely halted all avenues of advancement, so it was either a staff job for the next 8 yrs, or make way for fresh, lesser paid officers. SecNAV personally approved and signed off on my retirement OK and approved the award of pension and benefits.
I am quite proud of my accomplishment in the Navy, as would be anyone who spent the better part of their life in a cockpit of the finest fighting force this United States has to offer. I am not however proud of my actions that led to my early out. While I was suffice in my reasons for doing so, I put someone elses life at risk to prove a point. While smoking dope while on duty at sea, in my book earned the little bastard the 2 minutes of hanging his ass over the lifelines and getting his as chewed, earned me my doom in the USN.
Surfing the net is quite easy from ship, as long as you know the comms officer for as long as you've been in the service :) There is a few networks on big ships. The network that the Skipper is on is totally seperate from the network the officers can use for personal pleasure. This is for a few reasons, 1 being the fact that the Skipper doesn't need his transmissions being hacked by his own crew, and don't think some of the boneheaded enlisted men don't try. The Squadron CO's are on the skippers net, so with the propper password...VOILA I'm in like flynn.