Parker gets in hot water when the crew sends a chapter of his war novel to Parker's girlfriend Mary to impress her... and everyone thinks the story is real.

To assure that Binghamton get transferred to ComFleet, the crew have to recover a barrage balloon that they traded to Urula.

Binghamton takes advantage among the crew of how to design sarongs to ship McHale out so that the 73 men will fail an efficiency test and get transferred