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has directed U.S. Military forces...

to set DEFCON four.

We've been ordered

to get underway at 0600 hours...

to assume alert coverage, mid-Pacific,

the Far Eastern TVD target package.

Please keep your men informed.

Lieutenant Commander Hunter

is our new X.O.

Please bring him up to speed on

ship's personnel and supplies. Admiral?

- No, that's it.

- On your feet.

- [Door Closes]

- [Men Muttering]

- Here we go again, Commander.

- Thank you.

You bet. Hey, Bobby.

This is Bobby Dougherty. He's Supplies.

- Pleasure, Dougherty.

- Billy Linkletter, TSO.

- Mr. Linkletter.

- Commander.

- And you know Darik.

- Yes. Westergaurd. Long time no see.

- How's Julia?

- She's excellent.

- Good.

- And Roy Zimmer, Communications.

- Welcome aboard.

- Thank you.

- We served together on the Baton Rouge.

- Twice.

- That's right. We're lucky to have him.

- I think his dog gave me

the final seal of approval.

- He's crazy about that dog.

Takes him everywhere. The Navy looks

the other way 'cause he's Ramsey.

Navy looks the other way

'cause he's one of the few skippers

left who've seen combat.

- He took SEALS into Panama in '89.

- Tomahawks in the Gulf in '91.

- Took out eight or nine X.O. S in '94?

- Ouch.

- Last one caught what? Appendicitis?

- Yeah, right.

[Man Shouting]

- The Enemy Below.

- Robert Mitchum.

- And?

- And what?

- Robert Mitchum.

- Incomplete answer.

- The German guy with the white hair?

- Yeah. What's his name?

- Who was it?

- Curt Jurgens.

[Couple Shouting]

Hardy Kruger.

[Laughing] No way.

- Robert Shaw in his Nazi period.

- [Laughs]

Question is invalid.

We're even.

- Whoo.

- How you doin'?

- I'm fine. Thanks.

- Good. Address me as "sir"

when you speak to me!

Stand at attention, sailor!

Is he gonna fit in the sub?

Doubtful.

Who played the German sub commander

in The Enemy Below with Robert Mitchum?

- Was it Curt Jurgens or Hardy Kruger?

- Sir...

Wrong answer!

Drop down and give me 20! Now!

- Move! Move!

- One. [Straining] Two.

- Run Silent, Run Deep.

- [Sailor] Three.

The guy with the ears

and a little moustache.

- Cary Grant.

- [Grunts]

I'm worried about "T."

[Whining]

- Why?

- She doesn't know what's goin' on.

I think she thinks

I'm goin' away forever.

- I'll take care of her.

- You will?

- Yeah.

- You promise?

I promise.

- I love you, Dad.

- I love you too, son.

[Kissing]

Okay.

[Sighs] You know

I don't know what to say.

Just say good-bye.

See you in my dreams.

Give me a kiss.

- Davis.

- How you doin', sir?

Crew present and

accounted for, sir.

Little ducks...

there's trouble

in Russia.

So they called us.

We're going over there

and bringing...

the most lethal killing machine

ever devised.

We're capable...

of launching

more firepower...

than has ever been released

in the history of war.

For one purpose alone:

To keep our country safe.

We constitute the front line...

and the last line of defense.

[Thunder Rumbling]

I expect and demand...

your very best.

Anything less, you should have

joined the Air Force.

[Men Laughing]

This might be our

Commander-in-Chief's Navy...

but this is my boat.

And all I ask is that

you keep up with me.

And if you can't...

that strange sensation you'll be feeling

in the seat of your pants...

will be my boot in your ass.

- Mr. Cob?

- Yes, sir!

You're aware of the name of this ship,

aren't you, Mr. Cob?

Very aware, sir!

It bears a proud name,

doesn't it, Mr. Cob?

Very proud, sir!

- It represents fine people.

- Very fine people, sir!

- Who live in a fine, outstanding state.

- [Cob] Outstanding, sir!

In the greatest country

in the entire world.

[Cob] In the entire world, sir.

- And what is that name, Mr. Cob?

- Alabama, sir!

- And what do we say?

- [Both] Go, 'Bama!

[All] Roll tide!

Chief of the boat,

dismiss the crew.

Dismiss the crew.

Aye, aye, sir.

Crew! Department heads!

Attend to your departments!

- Fall out!

- [Men Cheering]

Here. Part of your qualification

for command.

[Sighs]

The last breath of polluted air

for the next 65 days.

Gonna miss it.

I don't trust air I can't see.

[Chuckles]

[Ramsey] This is my favorite part.

Right here, right now.

Bravo, Hunter.

Sir?

You knew to shut up

and enjoy the view.

Most eggheads want

to talk it away.

Your stock just went up

a couple of points.

Thank you, sir.

Allow me to give you

a tiny bit of advice.

If you want

your own boat someday...

the very worst thing you can do is worry

about yourself or try to impress me.

I can't stand save-asses,

and I won't abide kiss-asses.

You keep your priorities straight:

Your mission and your men.

How you like that cigar?

- It's good, sir.

- It's your first.

Yeah.

[Coughing]

[Chuckling] Don't like it too much.

They're more expensive than drugs.

X.O., take her down.

Take her down.

Aye, sir.

Control/Bridge:

Sounding.

Bridge/Control:

Sounding 130 fathoms.

[Men's Choir Singing]

- Lookouts, clear the bridge.

- Clear the bridge. Aye, sir.

Officer of the deck,

prepare to dive.

- Captain down.

- Captain is down.

[Dive Alarm Ringing]

[Men's Choir]

- X.O. Down.

- X.O. Is down.

[Choir Continues]

- Submerge the ship.

- Diving Officer, submerge the ship.

- Make your depth 150 feet.

- Make my depth 150 feet. Aye, sir.

Chief of the watch,

on the 1MC, dive, dive!

Make your depth 150 feet.

Five degree down bubble.

- [Zimmer] I don't understand.

- [Dougherty] You don't understand?

Radchenko is a fanatic, okay?

He's a potential Hitler.

- Somebody should just shoot him.

- I have no problem with that.

- Good.

- Well, it's fanatics who make history.

- Colonel Patton was a fanatic.

- That's what made him great.

[Linkletter]

You think this guy is Patton?

He's a dangerous lunatic, threatening

nuclear war, and he means it.

What's that make us, since we're the

only nation to ever drop a nuclear bomb?

It makes us a prime target.

There's a half a dozen...

other Third World countries with

atom bombs who'd love to drop one on us.

[Dougherty] That's right.

That's why we should drop one on them.

Are you a communist? You have a problem

with us dropping nuclear bombs on Japan?

- Shut up, Dougherty.

- You think it was a mistake, Mr. Hunter?

Sir?

Using the bomb

on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

- Well, if I thought that,

sir, I wouldn't be here.

- [Ramsey Laughing]

- Interesting way you put that.

- How'd I put it, sir?

Very carefully.

[Men Laughing]

You do qualify your remarks.

Somebody asked me if we

should have bombed Japan...

a simple, "Yes, by all means, sir.

Drop that f***er. Twice."

- [Men Laughing]

- I don't mean to suggest...

that you're indecisive,

Mr. Hunter.

Not at all.

Just, um... complicated.

[Chuckles]

Of course, that's the way

the Navy wants you.

Me, they wanted simple.

- Well, you certainly fooled them, sir.

- [Laughs]

Be careful there, Mr. Hunter.

It's all I got to rely on:

Bein' a simpleminded son of a b*tch.

Rickhover gave me

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