A club or other facility restricted to only petty officers of E-5 and E-6 pay grades. Most enlisted clubs on Navy bases are open to all enlisted sailors, E1 and up. Since hanging around junior enlisted people can lead to trouble many senior enlisted tend to stay away. So to help solve this problem many clubs will offer a special area for those sailors. The only requirement to get in is to be E5 or E6.

Since these sailors are known a first class and second class petty officers they are known as Acey-Deucey sailors. The barracks I was in during A-school had an Acey-Duecy lounge in it. The guys would go there to hide from us new to the Navy students. Since these guys had been in the fleet for a while they got sick of us new guys bugging them too much.

Every once and a while an Acey-Deucy area would allow an E4 if they were a guest of an E5 or E6. It was nice that ours at Great Lakes allowed this since I was an E4 and friends with several E5’s. Even the dinning halls had special lines for theses sailors. At Great Lakes there was a different line for these guys. It was rumored the food was just a little better than the regular galley. I never did go so I never did find out.

At the Naval hospital there was not only a different eating area, but there was even a special barracks for E5 and E6 to live. After I was promoted I had to move there and out of the kiddie barracks.

Part of the reason the separate people was to stop potential problems. The other was to keep military ranking divisions.