Streetwalker comes out of the yard repaired and not restored: one jet, two weapon stations, a mast carrying one light and no radar.
On her first morning in the Long Tau a mine kills the water under a coaster. The wire hauled out of the river afterward has four splices in it, made sitting down, by a man who is short of wire and uses every piece twice.
The mine was laid behind the sweep, which means sweeping cannot answer it. The only thing that stops a man mining a channel is going into the place he keeps them — and the place he keeps them is sixty square miles of tidal mangrove with a green blank the size of a palm where the chart should be.
