Corrected entry: After Ensign Keith reprimands Horrible and Meatball, Meatball remarks that Keith "must think he's a five-star admiral." The scene is set in early 1944, but the rank of Fleet Admiral (a.k.a. five-star admiral) did not exist until December 1944.
Rob Halliday
16th Mar 2012
Correction: Meatball may not literally mean that Ensign Keith thinks he is a "five star admiral." Meatball might have made this statement in the full knowledge that there was no such rank as "five star admiral." It might have been another way of asking "Who does he think he is?" Meatball could equally well have said Ensign Keith thinks he's a "twenty star admiral", or the President of the USA, or the Emperor of China. Meatball may mean that Ensign Keith has a very exaggerated idea of his own importance, when he is really just self-important, rude, arrogant and ignorant.
Rob Halliday