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"You goddamn shavetail sonofabitch, do you seriously not get how building esprit de corps by aggressively taking care of the pilots' needs and morale would lead to Hansen getting promoted to squadron command sooner than you?"

"I don't fucking care who the pilot was before their enlistment, what you did is a court-martial offense…no, no I don't want to hear it, Captain. You are going to spend the rest of this tour in the stockade. Now, march."

"Do not test me, Lieutenant, and do not violate Handler doctrine or military law again. Break another pilot, and I will unmake you."

"You will remove your cover in this office and stand at parade rest, Captain. This is a disciplinary hearing, and I am not one of your pilots, I am your fucking battalion CO. You are not the god of this unit, you are one of several Handlers, and I *will* replace you. Is that clear?"

"Well, sir, you can see in my record that I'm prior enlisted-- I applied to Handler School after basic officer training so that I could be the responsible Handler mine should've been. And by gods that is what I intend to become."

"It's alright, kid. They've been reassigned pending disciplinary action. You're safe now. The private here will see you to the chow hall, and after that, we'll convene for the debriefing. Rest assured, your former handler will face consequences."

"Thank gods, the fuckass lieutenant with the god complex in C Squadron got reassigned to staff duty." "Where, ma'am?" "Don't know, don't care, we're gonna be plenty busy with unfucking the mess they made in those pilots' heads. Now c'mon, Sergeant, let's get to work."

"Don't look at me, Captain, Sergeant Major is right. You pull that shit again on the pilots and you're gonna get drop kicked so hard you wind up back on Earth. You best hope the folks at Division don't hear about this."

"You see these two slices of bread from that retort pouch? What are you? That's right, an idiot sandwich. We have a robust supply chain for a reason and you cannot keep feeding the pilots this fucking swill for the rest of eternity."

"With what?….and you were under the impression that this would help the pilots how? My gods, Captain, the good idea fairy must've bit you twice this week. This is why we have to uphold the standards as an organization. That's stuff's unsat. Let's get you squared away."

"What? No! That is not in the Handler field manual, and I'm pretty sure that's illegal! You know what, no. I'm putting you in for an intervention at the brigade S-7 shop. If you won't listen to me, maybe you'll listen when there's a brigadier general's boot up your ass."