>Her commanding officer at Pearl Harbor, Commander Cassin Young,
>received the Medal of Honor for his work on December 7. He was, along
>with a number of gunners and other crewmen, blown off the deck of his
>ship by the explosion that sank Arizona; legend has it the
>remaining crew took it upon themselves to abandon ship, only to be met
>by their waterlogged captain coming up the ladder they were
>about to go down, demanding, "Where the hell do you gentlemen think
>you're going?"

Forgive me, but I have my doubts that "gentlemen" was the collective noun that CMDR Young used in that circumstance.