<strong>Chief Petty Officer Joseph Harden</strong><br/><br/>Joseph clenched his teeth shut when the captain hit the Asian girl. Joseph hated violence against women, and if anyone other than his commanding officer had done such a thing in his presence, he might have punched the man out right there. Instead he remained silent, ashamed of what was happening. When the Hawk spoke of employing the girls on his submarine, he knew for sure that the Captain had lost his mind. Giving civilians a task on a Navy boat went against any and all regulations. It was the type of decision only a madman would make. Had the Hawk slowly gone mad during this trip, only none of them had noticed it or realized it until now? Joseph fought the desire to protest, knowing that doing so twice in the space of a few minutes would only anger the captain to the point where he himself would have to fear for his safety.<strong>“Captain sir… If I might make a suggestion. There is vacant NCM bunk room opposite the aft storage room. It’s a part of the ship where only a handful of our crewmembers ever come, so it would be easily shut off from the rest of the ship. We could contain the ladies there and only require one or two men on guard to secure them from the rest of the men. It’ll be a bit cramped in there, but they’d all have a bunk and their own facilities.” </strong><br/>