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Originally Posted by SabreHawk

tried to get WO to man the deck gun but to no avail, F5 no workie either.

That is probably due to the morale bug. After a save and reload the game will reset your morale points to zero.
Manning the deck gun 'costs' you 1 morale point. If the game has zeroed out your morale points they just refuse to do their bloody jobs!
I'm using one of the morale fix mods, that set the cost of essential jobs to zero, so the crew will still do their jobs even if the game has magicked away all your morale points.

Try this.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ghlight=morale
There may be others available