I had an uncle who was drafted into the Coast Guard during WWII and was placed on a vessel in the Pacific, he was 6'5" and weighed about 220 when he arrived on board, and weighed 155 when they finally determined his sea sicknees was not going to abate. At this point they put him on Guam and made a carpenter out of him. He always told me this story about Guam, he said he saved a girl from being raped, when I asked him how he replied, "I quit chasing her"