He probably wondered why this thing was stuck out into the harbor.True story - back in 1991, while stationed on a ship in Pearl Harbor, I rented the movie THE NAKED AND THE DEAD. I watched it one night onboard when hardly anyone was there. At the beginning, they showed naval battle scenes. One young guy came down and started watching. He asked me what war. WW II I answered. Where, he asked. Pacific theater, I answered. So far, so good. Wanted to know which war and the location. Then he asked the question that has stayed with me ever since - who were we fighting. I turned to him and said, "you mean to tell me, we are sitting in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and you don't know who we fought in World War II?" His answer - hey, I don't know that history stuff. Sad, but true.
He probably wondered why this thing was stuck out into the harbor.This was your division officer, right?