but that night while you are walking down the passageway past combat one of the os [ 54 ] guys leans out and tells you to come in here and see something cool and you go in and hes got a computer and on the screen is a map of the persian gulf and iraq and he says watch this and points at all these little dots popping up in the gulf and he says that this is the navy tactical data system and that all those dots are little cruise missiles getting shot out of submarines and from the battleships and the destroyers and the aegis cruisers and then he shows you where all the little planes are going in to bomb the shit out of iraq and how this is the start of the war and this is all happening right then and its just like a tom clancy book but this is real [ 55 ] .