chapter five so youre out on the forward catwalk [ 58 ] hanging out fifty feet above the water with a life jacket and a helmet on , after the chief came down and got your ass out of your rack which is a little seven-foot by three-foot box they stick you in when theyre done with you for the day , yours is a bottom rack you got when the third class who had it finally got off the boat and out of the navy and he told you that day was like taking the biggest shit of his life it felt so good [ 59 ] .