Excellent contrast Selil, but try as the silverbacks might to make the chimps square themselves away, the chimps simply hide behind a crotchety personnel officer, who in turn hides behind the blinding array of rules and regs that his E-2s and E-3s can't possibly learn completely, as well as the folks at DFAS.

Believe me, I've done the leadership thing many times over, like ensuring a married SNCO went in with married junior Marines when they were knocking out their deployment audits. If the admin clerk was more concerned about what he would wear to the E-Club that night, it was like beating your head against a wall.