Not a week out of the hospital, he cracked this illegal Peruvian kid inthe face with a hammer and two hours later threw down at the Pathmark because he thought some fool was talking shit about him, popped said fool inthe piehole with a weak overhand right before a bunch of us could break it up.
Once asked to edit a misleading piece from the field at the time of the Vietnam war, he acidly refused, remarking that he was not inthe business of polishing shit.
On any boat you are continuously measuring and judging the environment, and even down in a hold, working on a shit pump, some part of you is aware of the wind shift.