after you are told to carry on you walk back to the deck edge and look down on the white water tossing out from the hull , and you wonder how you got yourself into this and then after a while you go below and pull off your uniform and see that your white hat is dirty and your inspection t-shirt has blood on the neck and you sit on the edge of your rack in your pants and pull off your shoes and whip them one by one banging into the back of your coffin locker and the second class comes over and kicks your foot and says dont worry about that asshole and the next morning you are on the bridge at sea and anchor keeping the log when the deck apes drop the brow [ 130 ] into the toulon harbor , sinking down out of sight under the oily black water and the whole ship waits with the marines laughing their asses off up on the flight deck , while the french guys find a crane and pull it out and the skipper calls the first lieutenant on the bridge and chews his ass in front of the whole watch and later you go down to the second class and say thanks and he says for what .