The locker room and the Loach saga (p. 967)
Mrs. Loach (as in the mom)’s life’s most fervent wish was that one of her countless children would enter the R.C. clergy, but that the eldest Loach boy had done a two-year U.S.N. bit and had gotten de-mapped early on in the Brazilian O.N.A.N./U.N. joint action of Y.T.M.P.
Context
Last E.T.A. day, pre-Gaudeamus-Igitur locker room, and the Big Buddies' comic saga of how Barry Loach became Head Trainer opens with the family body count: the eldest brother's combat death delivered in the street idiom, "de-mapped," folded casually between a clergy dream and a tainted grouper. Evidence of how completely the idiom owns the book's narration by p. 967.