CPO Walter Lynch
[Aboard the USS Missouri]
This ship is 70 years old. It's totally outdated. The firing control systems are all analog. The engines haven't been started in a decade, which would be fine, but they're steam, which I have no idea how to fire up. And even if I had a user manual and six weeks to go through it all, we still don't have enough crew to fire it up. [Turns to LT Hopper] I don't know what you're thinking, sir.
Old Salt
[The camera pans back to show more than ten 'old salts', former crewmen of the USS Missouri from various wars, standing watch over the ship. They approach the survivors from the USS John Paul Jones.] [Shaking hands with LT Hopper]
Is everyone all right?
LT Alex Hopper
Yes, sir, we're okay...You men have already given so much to your country, and no one has a right to ask any more, but I'm asking.
Old Salt
What do you need, son?
LT Alex Hopper
I need to borrow your boat.
