Interesting that you should bring that up. I have the five-hour version, and even there the total "debauchery" doesn't add up to fifteen minutes. Even the infamous Nightclub scene only has about five minutes of that. "Two hours of wretched, despicable behavior" is about as far from the truth of that movie as you can get. Most of it is people talking, and not about "Subject number one".
As for "onboard", I guess she was never in the navy. I was one of the Vietnam-era sailors in 1970, and knew many older men who had been in the war. Trust me on this - Das Boot is mild in that department. Any time someone picked up a new dirty joke he didn't just share it with his friends, but with everyone who would listen. For the most part there isn't much else for an off-duty sailor to do.
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