chapter two its your first float even though you are a third class already , because the advancement exams for bosun mate are so ridiculously easy that a total rock could pass them and get rank , and you came out of boot camp a seaman anyway because you spent two years in that dumb ass community college before you decided to get your ass out of the shithole town in upstate new york before you died there , so you only had to pass one time and now you are a third class and you dont go on working parties [ 21 ] anymore or hang out in a cage to paint the hull on christmas eve in the sleet and the rain in norfolk [ 22 ] .