GR translation: four haze-gray piglets

[Monte Davis]

It might be inclusive -- the Badass and three other "piglets" docked among
larger (sow) warships. Or, as David says, a destroyer (DD) with three
smaller destroyer escorts (DE) or corvettes.

Google "destroyer division WWII" and see the page from Roscoe, _United
Sates Destroyer Operations in WWII_" That wouldn't have changed much by
Pynchon's USN days in the 1950s.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 7:57 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes. Smaller but similar.
>
>
> On Saturday, August 15, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> V597.3-10   Presently, out of breath, they arrive at the pier where the
>> Badass and its division, four haze-gray piglets, are tied up, to find the
>> runcible spoon fight just under way at the center of a weaving, cheering
>> crowd of civilian and military drunks. Stringy Avery Purfle, sideburns
>> slick as seal’s fur in the pallid light, Adam’s apple working in and out at
>> a nervous four or five cycles a minute, shuffles around his opponent, the
>> serene and oxlike St. John Bladdery, both with runcible spoons in the
>> on-guard position, filed edges bright.
>>
>> Why are they called "piglets"?  Is it just because they are much smaller
>> than the Badass?
>>
>
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