Perhaps you could have cleaned your own stateroom or picked up after yourself in the wardroom, and let "tradition" be damned. I was a Staff Sergeant (E-5) at Phu Cat AB in Vietnam and shared a barracks with about 40 other enlisted guys, while our pilots shared trailers at the rate of 2 men to a trailer, which was about half the size of our barracks. No one complained, except maybe because their trailers were air conditioned and ours were slatted. I always enjoyed the smell of the honey pots, wafting through our rooms. Smelled like victory.

Anyway, fast forward 20 or so years and now I'm an O-6. You can bet your butt that I expect to be treated better, housing wise, either at home station or on deployment. Why? Because I had earned it. This argument is really a moot one, because the truth is that the vast majority of enlisted guys have no problem with doubling (or tripling) up, as long as there's enough room for them and their gear. Whereas officers, especially pilots, expect something better. Do they deserve it? Hell YES.

JJ