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429. How sick was he?

Sick enough not to realize the Navy doesn’t expect you to hold course when doing it will get you killed.

Sick enough to go completely off the handle at a sailor whose shirt tail was untucked and both of the deck officers while not realizing he was hazarding the ship in the process. (Article 110 UCMJ, section 2: negligently hazarding a vessel of the Armed Services is a court-martial offense.) If I was the helmsman I would have just turned the wheel to go left of the buoy; it’s not like Queeg would have noticed anyway.

Sick enough that he forgot he didn’t want to see any more Westerns.

And sick enough that the head mess man was terrified to tell the bastard his subordinates finished the strawberries before they could go bad. It’s not like frozen strawberries have any sort of a shelf life once they’ve been thawed.

I think Queeg was put in command of the Caine because Headquarters Department of the Navy was sick of his shit. They couldn’t make him a department leader on a good ship because none of the squadron commanders of good ships wanted him around. They couldn’t let him ride out the war behind a desk because no shore commander would put up with him. And they couldn’t medically retire him because the Navy wasn’t allowed to discharge anyone with four working limbs. So…they figured he couldn’t hurt anyone in the junkyard Navy and stuck him there…where he damn near killed 150 sailors. DeVriess didn’t run a pretty ship or a pretty crew, but they were good at their jobs under him.