he opens the hatch and the two of you go into the storeroom , and he roots around through some old dirty shirts and then digs out four new ones still in the plastic , and he tosses them to you and then he digs out a paper stencil with black spattered paint and cutouts of two crossed axes below flames , and tells you to get them stenciled and stencil your name where the left pocket would be and then you go back out with your foot still all wet and the air hot and a pipe sending steam shooting out toward your face and its loud , and monroe shouts something at you and you turn to say what and trip on a kneeknocker [ 94 ] , and one of the turtlenecks falls off the top of the pile and hits the grating just as a wave of bilgewater floods over it , and you say shit and monroe just laughs and then you start laughing , and then realize that you and a black guy are laughing together , which is weird because you never knew a black guy until you got to boot camp and now it doesnt seem like such a big deal [ 95 ] .