Chapters 13 and 14 Summary

In Chapter 13, the carrier departs and a new pilot nicknamed New Guy practices landing and taking off. That night, Jake interviews Hardesty, who was supposed to bring his marriage papers. Hardesty produces them, and Jake sees that the boy married just two days earlier, which means he had lied when he said he wanted shore leave to visit his wife. Jake chastises the sailor severely for not being truthful. He wants to write up a complaint, but Commander Camparelli says to let it go. The commander says he will do the same thing concerning his discovery that Jake and Boxman threw the sailor into the crocodile pond and got in a fight, but he says Jake will be unofficially grounded during the next shore leave. Camparelli also reveals that he knows Lundeen is the Phantom, and says he had better stop...