GR translation: four haze-gray piglets

[Mike Jing]

I think you are right, it is inclusive. So it's a four-ship DD division.

Thanks, Monte.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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