because enlisted guys can fuck up and junior officers can fuck up a little but that the senior officers can never fuck up , because the first lieutenant was on the bridge when that container ship laid on its horn and slid by about 20 yards from the boats stern and because the skipper has a girlfriend in rota and they all went out for drinks while you and your buddies were in a whorehouse , and because they all got twenty years in and you got a little more than one .