Mike,
First off, smoking other people's discarded cigarettes is a great way to catch something. If you're lucky, it will only be a cold or flu. Besides that, you're never going to get enough nicotine that way and you'll just spend every day in semi-withdrawal and pissed off about it. Obviously quitting smoking is going to be a pain in the ass right now, but you need to do it. Trying to smoke while in the Navy is going to be a huge pain in the ass too. You might as well quit now.
And just a heads up, the military is doing more and more translation work with computers. They will definitely be scaling back the number of translators over the next decade.
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http://www.army.mil/article/32679/tr...tion-problems/