Excellent thread, outstanding posts.
To what Colonel Sir said, I will add this quote:
Quote:
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
(Paris Sorbonne,1910)
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I think there are quite a few that know deep down in the dark recesses of their psyche that they don't have what it takes or have the balls to find out and it pisses them off and probably scares them more than a little to have to confront their weakness in the form of those that have on a daily basis.
Most people fear what they don't understand. And they hate what they fear.
That no-neck Captain probably scares the shit out of that LTC and the latter hates him for it.
I think many of them are also lonely (in a non-Navy way) and the rapport on a Team gives them cause for envy. That easy, relaxed respect that the NCOs have for a good Team Leader.