The voice on the other end of the phone, Major Bernard, didn't expect Donnie's words to be so direct.
But since the other party had made this call, they obviously were not willing to give up.
It had been said long ago that the U.S. military budget was not always at the forefront; it developed over a period of time. During Harding's tenure as President of the United States, he had signed treaties with several other countries to stop the arms race and also retired some battleships.
This led to the fact that the United States Navy wasn't the wealthy entity it would be in later years; the current U.S. Navy was very clearly a pauper.
They had weapons, but they were paupers, a situation they naturally could not accept.
Thus, Major Bernard came up with an idea: smuggling bootleg liquor!
If American businessmen could smuggle bootleg liquor, why couldn't their navy, especially since they had the most powerful weapons in American waters!
