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Navy Log is an American television drama anthology series created by Samuel Gallu that presented stories from the history of the United States Navy.
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00:00Navy Regulations, Article 103.7.
00:24The deck log shall be a complete daily record by watches in which shall be described every circumstance and occurrence of importance or interest which concerns the crew and the operation and safety of the ship, or which may be of historical value.
00:42Regardless of naval base or ocean sea, whether she be a mite or a minesweeper or a mammoth of a cruiser, proudly a ship flies her ensign.
00:53But comes a certain hour and, midget or monster, humbly she hauls down. One and only one pennant tops her ensign. This one.
01:04Here is the actual story of one of its servants. Time, 09.30, Sunday. Place USS Nereus in Fort San Diego. Duty, rig for church.
01:19.
01:30Divine service is now being held on the fan tail. The smoking lamp is out. Knock off all card games and unnecessary work. Keep silence about the deck during divine services.
01:44Church call, Marty. I'm not deaf and I'm not playing cards. I'm cleaning up. I know. I didn't mean that. I mean you ought to go.
01:51Uh-huh. Send my saris to the chaplain. Come on. We'll go ashore afterwards.
01:56Ashore? That's a laugh. You know I'm restricted to the ship. Oh, yeah. You know, I never can understand why you get all slopped up. Try to take on the whole shore patrol.
02:05I had my reasons. Shove off, Sparks. You'll be late. Look, Marty. You really better go to services. If the chaplain sees you there, it'll be that much in your face.
02:13It'll be that much in your favor, you know. I could see myself polishing Flaherty's apple. My chief's rig wouldn't be held up if it wasn't for him.
02:21But Flaherty's not the chaplain anymore. We've got a new one. That's news to me. Who is it?
02:26Some lieutenant commander. A van Branken. He's a nice guy. Hey, he'll be at your captain's mast. He might put on a good word.
02:33Look, Sparks, you're wasting your breath. You happen to be talking to a guy who's in the mess because of a chaplain.
02:38The only place I'll see man what's his name will be at the mast. And if he's not there, it'll be okay with me, too.
02:53Time, 1300. Place, Fauxhall. Duty, commence holiday routine. And comfort the low in spirit.
03:04That's him over there, sir.
03:16I thought you might want to have a little talk with me, Ertel.
03:18About what, chaplain?
03:20Well, a couple of friends of yours tell me that you've piled up a mess of charges against yourself.
03:25That's my business, sir.
03:27I know that, Ertel. Sometimes a chaplain can help where a division officer can. You know I'll be at your mast.
03:37What do you say?
03:38Look, chaplain. When I needed help, there was only one man on this whole ship to go to who could give it to me.
03:44I didn't get it. And that one man was a chaplain. Now, no offense to you personally, sir, but I'm off chaplains.
03:50And that's putting it mildly.
03:54I guess there's more to this than I understand.
03:58Well, if you want me to help you, you know where I am.
04:01What do you think about Ertel? There isn't a mark on his record until this last cruise.
04:17He was all set for the Chiefs rating and then all of a sudden, wham!
04:21He tried to mop up San Francisco single-handed.
04:24Fighting, huh?
04:25Well, he always was pretty handy with his fists, you know.
04:28The ship's competitions and the like, nothing vicious.
04:31His work? One of our outstanding straw bosses on the Black Gang.
04:35And now?
04:36For blood. Always looking for fights.
04:40Hard guy, huh?
04:41Seems that way now.
04:45You know, Commander, I've always had trouble with my first name.
04:49What's that got to do with this?
04:51Well, I've always used the name Derrick.
04:53That's my middle name.
04:55My first name is Marion.
04:59Well, in my neighborhood, any kid with a girl's name either had to learn to use his fists or learn to run real fast.
05:07Well, I had weak ankles, so I ended up with the Golden Globes.
05:12That was before I went to Divinity School.
05:22I can take you or any other lousy master at arms on this ship.
05:26You got yourself a job, Big Mouth.
05:28Any time, any place you say, I'll take the job.
05:32Very interesting.
05:34Hello, Martin.
05:35I told you I don't want to talk.
05:37Well, give me just one of those reasons.
05:39Besides my being a chap.
05:41Because it's too late for talk, that's why.
05:43So you're letting your fists do the talking, huh?
05:45So?
05:46Well, that's one kind of talent.
05:48You know, this ship never had a champ of any kind.
05:51Since I'm also responsible for the athletic support, I thought I'd like to put that talent of yours to use.
05:56Well, you got me listening.
05:57Why don't you let me train you?
05:59I know all the ropes, and I think you've got the makings of a ship's champ.
06:03Oh, I take it you were a boxer once.
06:05Yeah, in college.
06:06I keep in shape.
06:07And you'd like to train me for ship's champ?
06:09That's right.
06:10Well, before I agree to think it over, there's a little matter of my mast coming up.
06:15Yeah, I know.
06:16They're gonna throw the book at me?
06:17Probably.
06:18So how are we gonna get in all this training with me on bread and water?
06:21I'll figure out something.
06:23Yes, sir, I bet you will.
06:25I know just what's going through your mind.
06:27I suppose you tell me that.
06:29That's easy.
06:30You're figuring to get me interested in boxing.
06:33Figuring on dangling the ship's champ carrot in front of my nose.
06:36And all of a sudden, I'm a reformed character.
06:39Well, that's pretty cute thinking, chaplain.
06:41But I'm not interested in ship's champ or a new chaplain's special project.
06:45What do you think I am, anyway, to fall for a keg like that?
06:48Well, I thought you had guts enough to try to fight your way out of this mess you're in
06:52instead of laying down and taking a count.
06:54Oh?
06:55Sounds like flag waving to me, chaplain.
06:57Well, you're wrong.
06:58I thought I might be able to help you.
07:01Or at least get some human explanation of why a fine sailor suddenly goes wild and blames
07:08it all on a chaplain.
07:10But I was wrong.
07:11You're no fighter.
07:13You're a quitter.
07:14Quitter, huh?
07:16Did I hear you say, once I got you in the ring?
07:21Did I hear right?
07:22Yeah.
07:23Thought I might work you out, show you how to move.
07:26You really think you can teach me something, chaplain?
07:29Well, you've got a lot to learn.
07:31Now, let me tell you what's going on in that thick noggin of yours.
07:34I can do it in one sentence.
07:35Well, be my guest.
07:36All right.
07:37Martin Hurtell speaking.
07:39A chaplain lost me up.
07:41So I'm going to get even with him by laying this one out on the deck.
07:45Do I read you, Hurtell?
07:46We'll see.
07:47Yeah.
07:48I'll be seeing you.
07:59Is he kidding?
08:00What about?
08:01What do you mean by that crack?
08:02What crack?
08:03I didn't hear him.
08:04When he came by me.
08:05I got him, he said.
08:06I got him.
08:07Come to think of it, he wasn't talking to me exactly.
08:11Yeah.
08:12More like he was talking to himself.
08:14Yeah?
08:15Well, you know what they say about people who talk to themselves.
08:24Time, 1300 Saturday.
08:27Place, midship, topside.
08:30Duty, recreation.
08:33And an appointment with the chaplain.
08:37Okay, Larry, I'll work with Marty for a while.
08:40How's it going?
08:41Pretty good.
08:42Good, let's see that jab.
08:44No, hold it, you're too tight.
08:47That may be, chaplain, but I'll tell you one thing.
08:50Okay.
08:51I'm ready for you any time.
08:53Haven't changed your mind, huh?
08:55Not me.
08:56Especially since I understand you've been going around ship asking questions about me.
08:59Right.
09:00I think I've got a pretty good line on you.
09:02At least I found out it's partly woman trouble.
09:04Look, chaplain, quit poking around in my life!
09:06Still a quitter, huh?
09:07Put on those gloves.
09:08You're on.
09:09Give me a pair of gloves.
09:10How many rounds do you think you're good for?
09:12How many rounds do you think you'll need?
09:13No.
09:14Just one, Marty.
09:15No.
09:16Just one, Marty.
09:17Come on, hurry up.
09:22I'll really make a champ out of you.
09:23Thanks for the instruction.
09:24I'll really make a champ out of you.
09:25Thanks for the instruction.
09:26Thanks for the instruction.
09:56I just figured on winning his respect as a man and then working from there.
10:03Guess you were wasting your time.
10:06I know how you feel, though.
10:08Why does a good steady sailor change overnight into a sore head?
10:13You say you found out something about him?
10:15Yes, sir.
10:16Checking the records, I found that he's been sending an allotment to a Mrs. Milton Ertel in San Francisco.
10:21Milton?
10:22Couldn't be his wife.
10:23His sister-in-law.
10:24The allotment was stopped right after the ship left San Francisco.
10:28I'm sure there's some connection.
10:29Hmm.
10:30Commander, I'd like to track it down.
10:32How about three days' leave?
10:34I'll go along with that.
10:36Three days it is.
10:37Beginning after services on Sunday.
10:39That'll get you back here in time for Ertel's mast.
10:41I can't delay it any longer.
10:43Thanks, Commander.
10:49First stop, San Francisco.
10:51Place, 1479 Hunter Street.
11:02Yes?
11:03Pardon me.
11:04I'm trying to locate Mrs. Milton Ertel.
11:06Ertel?
11:07Yes.
11:08Ertel.
11:09Oh, she's been gone some three, four months ago.
11:11Must have been some kind of trouble.
11:12What makes you say that?
11:14Well, the police came and took the child away.
11:16The police?
11:17What did the police...
11:18I don't know a thing other than that.
11:19You'll have to ask the cops.
11:24Thank you very much.
11:25Indeed.
11:26Stop number two, police station.
11:29You can see from the record what kind of person she was.
11:34Apparently she was taking this brother-in-law of hers for a ride on his Navy allotment.
11:39She must have had some kind of hold over him.
11:41I think I know what it was.
11:44Her child is named Martin.
11:47Named for his uncle, no doubt.
11:49Do you know where she is?
11:52No, sir.
11:53If we did, we'd jail her for abandoning the kid.
11:56And the boy, how about him?
11:58Take me a minute to find out.
12:01Harris, check welfare and find out where they placed that kid in the abandonment case.
12:06Ertel was the name.
12:08E-R-T for Tom, E-L.
12:11I'll hold on while you get it.
12:13Would you like to see the boy?
12:15Yes, if it can be arranged.
12:17Well, you being a minister and an officer, no problem there.
12:20Yeah.
12:22Mm-hmm.
12:23Yeah.
12:26Got it.
12:27Thanks.
12:30There's the address for Foster Holm.
12:35Oh, if I can bother you for just one more thing.
12:38Oh, no trouble, Chaplain.
12:39Well, since she was on a Navy allotment, did anyone think to inform her brother-in-law when the child was found abandoned?
12:45Let me check.
12:47Sure.
12:52Welfare sent a cable to his ship.
12:57Never got an answer.
12:59There's the story.
13:00No other course but to farm the kid out.
13:07Beginning to understand what happened.
13:09He was trying to be his brother's son's keeper.
13:19Stop number three, a foster home.
13:22Number four, the welfare department.
13:24A place whose files are full of unhappy stories.
13:29Last stop.
13:31A church.
13:33The rectory of Monsignor Flaherty, former Lieutenant Commander Flaherty, Chaplain Corps, U.S. Navy.
13:39Attached to the USS Nereus.
13:40Here it is.
13:41Day and date in my diary.
13:46There's Shane.
13:48May his soul rest in peace.
13:50Nertel couldn't have known.
13:51I remember being in a hurry, trying to get to Shane before he died.
14:06Mumbling something about later, later, as I passed or tell.
14:12Father, that fills in the last detail.
14:16Could I use your phone?
14:17Certainly.
14:18Uh, let's see if I've guessed right.
14:27Operator, I'd like to place a person-to-person call to the executive officer of the USS Nereus.
14:33A San Diego naval base.
14:36That's right.
14:38Tell the Monsignor Flaherty and Chaplain Van Branken are on the line, please.
14:41That's correct.
14:42All the way down the line.
14:43I wondered myself about the change in Nertel.
14:48He wouldn't let me get near him.
14:50Gave me quite a hard time, too.
14:52Oh, one moment, please.
14:54Thanks.
14:55Hello.
14:56Yes, he's right here.
14:58Well, it's a long story, sir.
15:00But I'm working against your timetables.
15:03Would you do me two favors?
15:04One, don't let Nertel know about this call.
15:08And, uh, would you put me on to my yeoman, please?
15:10I have some detailed notes for him prior to Ertel's mast.
15:14Thanks, Commander.
15:15I'll hold on while you switch me over.
15:16Time 1400.
15:30Place ship's boat deck.
15:32Duty Captain's Mast.
15:35Commanding Officer Captain B.F. Griffith.
15:37When you assist in mass cases, two pages forward.
15:48Ertel, you are charged with committing three offenses in the violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
15:55Namely, one, absent without leave from July 8, 1953 to July 18, 1953.
16:07Two, drunk and disorderly at the Shifty Nifty Bar in San Francisco on Hunter Street.
16:13Three, resisting lawful apprehension by the Shaw Patrol at the same time and place.
16:17Robert Boyle, Yeoman First Class, is the accuser in your case.
16:21The charges have been investigated by an officer appointed by me.
16:25You do not have to make a statement at this mast unless you desire to do so.
16:29However, if you do make a statement, it may be held in evidence against you at subsequent trial at court-martial.
16:35I am now prepared to examine any witnesses requested by you.
16:37Do you fully understand what I've just told you?
16:39Yes, sir.
16:41And do you have anything to say in your own defense or an explanation of these charges?
16:45No, sir. No explanation, sir.
16:47You are a petty officer, First Class.
16:50And you had already qualified for Chief Petty Officer when these serious charges were brought against you.
16:57Possible punishment by court-martial can include a bad conduct discharge and confinement,
17:03as well as loss of pay and reduction in rating.
17:05Are you still sure you have nothing to say?
17:09Yes, sir. I'm sure.
17:11Hurtell, do you think you've received bad treatment, the boardship?
17:17I have nothing to say, sir. I'm prepared to take my medicine.
17:22Sir, as you know, I've gathered certain information about this man.
17:27I know it's irregular, but if I might ask him a few questions...
17:31How about that, Hurtell?
17:32I'd rather not, sir.
17:33Martin, the skipper's got a tough decision to make. He's entitled to the facts. I know them.
17:39Won't you trust me to lay them out fair and square?
17:43I don't understand.
17:45Martin, I went up to San Francisco.
17:48I know that your sister-in-law abandoned your little nephew, Marty.
17:52Your only brother's only son.
17:55He's the light of your life, isn't he?
17:57He was.
17:59Hurtell, I understand you got a cable from the San Francisco police informing you of the police record of your brother's widow and advising you of the steps that were taken in regard to the boy.
18:11That is true, sir. Except...
18:13Except what?
18:15Except there was no news to me, sir.
18:16I always knew she was no good, but how could I tell my brother a thing like that?
18:21Then when he died, the last thing he wrote was to take care of the kid. Take care of Marty.
18:26He was like my own son, sir.
18:28He was the only one left in the family with the family name. My name.
18:32This woman, she didn't care a hill of beans about him.
18:34I sent her an allotment figuring it would help keep the kid in shoes. Keep her out of trouble a little.
18:40I guess it didn't do any good.
18:42After you got that cable, why didn't you go to your shipmates for help?
18:46I was ashamed.
18:47Admitting I was played for a sucker for five, six years allotment. Steady.
18:51So you went to Chaplain Flaherty?
18:53I went to the chaplain. Yes, sir.
18:55What for?
18:57To ask for emergency leave.
18:59So that I could get a hitch on a plane and take care of Marty.
19:01Captain, go ahead, Chaplain.
19:05Martin, what happened between you and Chaplain Flaherty is the crux of everything that happened after. Why don't you spill it?
19:11What good would it do?
19:12Well, I can explain it.
19:14You see, I saw Father Flaherty.
19:17You can explain why he cut me dead.
19:19I found out the police are going to stick my nephew in a home.
19:22I go to the chaplain.
19:24I meet him in the passageway and I say to him, Chaplain, I've got to talk to you.
19:28He looks through me as if I don't exist.
19:29And you can explain that?
19:32I can.
19:33Well, I wish somebody would.
19:35Marty, he came to you later, tried to talk to you.
19:38After all the damage was done.
19:40After it was too late to do anything about Marty.
19:42What did you do, Ertel?
19:44Decide to handle things for yourself?
19:46In your own way?
19:48That's about the size of it, sir.
19:50All right.
19:51Go ahead on the story about San Francisco.
19:55Well, I went AWOL, looking for her and the kid.
19:59Why didn't you go to the police?
20:01Because I was afraid they'd turn me in for AWOL before I could find Marty.
20:05I cased the whole city looking for her and the boy.
20:08I did a lot of drinking, trying to forget.
20:11Forget what?
20:12That this whole thing didn't have to happen if my chaplain hadn't given me the brush off when I needed him the most of my life.
20:19Take over, chaplain.
20:21Martin, you did not get the brush off.
20:24You can call it what you like.
20:25Chaplain Flaherty had no right.
20:27Ah!
20:28But he had the duty.
20:30When you stopped Father Flaherty, he was on his way to sickbay.
20:34If you remember, he was wearing the stone of his office.
20:37And he was carrying the blessed sacrament, the host.
20:43Martin, Father Flaherty was racing against time to administer the last rites of the Catholic Church to a dying man.
20:50A shipmate of yours named Shane.
20:52At that moment, he was not your chaplain.
20:57He was that dying man's priest.
21:00And he could not stop.
21:03I never knew, sir.
21:05I never knew.
21:07Neither did I until I saw Father Flaherty.
21:10Point is, do you understand?
21:12Oh, I do, sir.
21:13I'm sorry.
21:14I'm sorry.
21:15It's all my fault.
21:17Just one question, Hertel.
21:20Suppose you had found the boy.
21:21What then?
21:23Well, I was going to get him squared away in a good home with plenty of money for my allotment.
21:28Maybe get myself made his legal guardian or adopt him legally or something.
21:32And then?
21:34And then turn myself in, take what was coming to me and work myself up to my rating again and give it everything I had.
21:40I see.
21:43Do you know where your nephew is now?
21:46No, sir. I don't.
21:47Sir, I respectfully urge extenuating circumstances.
21:52All right, chaplain.
21:54Hertel, the mast is over.
21:57You had a good man on your side.
21:58I'm dismissing the charges at your request.
22:02Of course, you'll forfeit the pay lost during your unauthorized abstinence.
22:07I'm clearing your record and making you eligible for that chief's appointment right now.
22:13Dismissed.
22:14Dismissed.
22:16Two paces back.
22:20Hand salute.
22:21Two.
22:25Hertel.
22:27You're out of uniform.
22:29Aye, aye, sir.
22:30Just don't let me down when the ship needs a champ.
22:31I give you my word, sir.
22:32But if only you could tell me-
22:33Go down and get into that chief's uniform.
22:34Captain Zoras.
22:36Yes, you've hit the canvas on the first punch.
22:38But you came back strong and made everybody a winner.
22:40You feel good.
22:42Sure, but what's more important is the way Hertel feels.
22:44And you're glad.
22:45Now, hear this.
22:46Hertel, chief machinist mate.
22:47Lay up the forward boat deck.
22:48The shopper, was that me on the bullhorn?
22:49No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
22:50But you came back strong and made everybody a winner.
22:53You feel good.
22:55Sure, but what's more important is the way Hertel feels.
22:59And you're glad.
23:04Now, hear this.
23:06Hertel, chief machinist mate.
23:08Lay up the forward boat deck.
23:13The shopper, was that me on the bullhorn?
23:15They want you up forward.
23:16Try to knock me out, will you?
23:17You wait till you see what I'm gonna hit you with.
23:19Come on.
23:35Is your name marking her tail?
23:36Yes, it is.
23:37So is mine.
23:38Surprise.
23:40You're a chief, aren't you?
23:43A real chief?
23:45A real chief, Marty.
23:46Are you tough?
23:49Real tough.
23:50Then why are you crying?
24:01Hertel, Junior.
24:02Martin.
24:03Visitor aboard ship.
24:05Hertel, Martin.
24:06Chief machinist mate.
24:08Granted ten days leave.
24:09He heard the father, come to say, whose arms have found the restless way.
24:25Who's arms have found the restless way?
24:26Who is the mighty ocean deep?
24:42In the mighty ocean deep?
24:43It don't avoid their limit's feet.
24:44It don't avoid their limit's feet.
24:59Oh, hear us when we cry to thee.
25:01Oh, hear us when we cry to thee.
25:14For those in heaven on the sea.
25:15For those in heaven on the sea.
25:31You go to hell.
25:32How old are you my 맞아?
25:33приглас me tears.
25:34Christina in heaven on earth.
25:35We go to hell and bring fun out.
25:36You go.
25:38You come to hell and bring for that day.
25:39Our great ages tonight.
25:40Our long flash of existence.
25:41It'sworum.
25:43Love but the oldmarks of its
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