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...Wearing dungarees and a flag-striped crash helmet, a sailor reported for his day's duties at the Charleston Naval Station, S.C., by gunning his motorcycle up to the main gate...
...must be minimized and those irksome barracks and personnel inspections, if held at all, should not interfere with weekend liberty. Beer may be dispensed in barracks, and liquor can be kept in those barracks that are divided into rooms. Optimistically, he set 15 minutes as the maximum time any sailor should be ordered to wait in line for anything...
Korty's dialectic is readily apparent: The sailor, when confronted with repressive society, ships out to another port. Like the gangster in underworld folklore, he does not wish to change society, for it conveniently embodies all the ideals which he thrives on battling-ideals which he eventually wishes to return to. His place outside society is an excuse for license. His daughter and her friends take a more responsible approach to preserving personal sanctity, attempting to get close to the land and to social basics by living on a totally personal level with their neighbors and environs...
...some of them he was the Populist Prince, handing out miniature liquor bottles at an old folks' home ("Holy water! That's what it is! But don't sprinkle it around. Pour it down!"). In others he was the Court Clown mugging shamelessly in a sailor's hat or a baseball cap. On a cold November day in 1963 he was the nation's own Job, his prayer cracking with grief as he called on the angels to carry his "dear Jack" to Paradise...
...best-known Z-gram sets a goal of 15 minutes as the maximum time any sailor should have to wait in any line for anything. Others expand liberty for men in port, permit them to wear civilian clothes at all shore installations, create a pilot program to fly their wives and children (at their own expense) to ports where their ships stay. Another offers a Pentagon computer to match up sailors wishing to exchange duty stations; men used to have to engineer their own swaps. Z-gram 35 permits beer-vending machines in enlisted men's quarters and alcoholic...