it takes seven minutes for the whole boat to get to their battle stations and man up with the airdales on the flight deck spinning up the ready helo , cobras with sidewinders on the rails , and the three-inch fifties [ 73 ] rounds sliding into the racks and the mount spinning out on the bearing and the fifty-cals [ 74 ] loading up and the sea-whiz jerking around searching for targets , and the ship heeling into a turn to put the formation against the threat axis while the commodore puts on his helmet and sits down in his chair and bitches , but he knows that seven minutes is pretty damn good for a gator [ 75 ] as watertight doors slam shut on men who are now where wed find them if this was real and not one of us isnt thinking about that a little .