Word: stripers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warning that Arnheiter's relief at the hands of junior officers would erode authority throughout the service, Alexander brought his complaint directly to Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius. "Mr. Secretary," the four-striper argued in his statement, "what all of your officers will demand to know is just how in hell this could happen in the United States Navy...
Closer to what? Certainly not to an Academy Award. In this routine piece of USNonsense-aptly epitomized in the ship's mascot: a turkey-Pat plays a two-striper, second in command on an LST in the peacetime Navy. When not scuttling his principles with a girl reporter (Barbara Eden), Hero Boone consoles a pointy-headed skipper (Dennis O'Keefe) who dearly loves to fish but sadly catches the only thing that seems to swim in the average gagman's Pacific: a brassiere. Whenever he has nothing worse to do, Pat sings a song. The music will...