Jerry Paris credited as playing...
Ens. Barney Harding
- Ens. Barney Harding: I have a confession to make! Height bothers me. I think I'm gonna be sick! I'd use my hat, but it's the only one I've got! Oh, those poor sailors!
- Ensign Willie Keith: Take mine. I've got three others.
- Ens. Barney Harding: Thanks. That's darn cordial of ya!
- Ensign Willie Keith: Don't mention it!
- Lt. Keefer: [by way of introduction] Ensign Keith, Ensign Harding.
- Lt. Keith: My condolences.
- Ens. Barney Harding: Thanks.
- Lt. Keefer: Alright, my two newly hatched innocents, let's get with it. The USS Caine is a minesweeper. These are paravanes used for minesweeping. They carry sweep wires out both sides of the ship. The wire contacts the mooring cable of a mine and saws it in two. We've been in combat a year and a half. During that time we have never been asked to sweep one single mine.
- Lt. Keefer: [concluding the tour] Well, gentlemen, just one more thing to do: climb the mast.
- Ens. Barney Harding: Well, what for? A mast is a mast.
- Lt. Keefer: When the captain orders a tour, he means from the keel to the foretop. That's the foretop.
- [pointing to the 100-foot high superstructure]
- Ens. Barney Harding: [slowly ascending with fatalistic resignation] I've got a wife and a kid. I'm very fond of them. I'll probably never see them again.