>>936617703
Barnes, you talk like you have a mission, even when you should be shooting the shit with the squad and bringing up morale through common ground. But the guys who 'earn their paychecks' will never make sergeant, so that is why you and I are going to have to talk one way to each other and not at all to the men, sometimes.

If we seem to be licking the boots of pencil pushers to the men, we become the pencil pushers to them.
If we become the pencil pushers to them, we have to reprove our commitment to the brotherhood of the platoon majority.