A Methodist in Your Midst

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Lt. Kaffee, Lt. Kendrick, Lt. Ross — A Few Good Men

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Lieutenant, was Dawson given a rating of Below Average on this last fitness report because you learned held been sneaking food to Private Barnes?

Not so fast.

Lieutenant?

Corporal Dawson was found to be Below Average because he committed a crime.

What crime did he commit?

Lieutenant Kendrick?

Dawson brought a hungry guy some food. What crime did he commit?

He disobeyed an order.

And because he did, because he exercised his own set of values, because he made a decision about the welfare of a marine
that was in conflict with an order of yours, he was punished, is that right?

Corporal Dawson disobeyed an order.

Yeah, but it wasn't a real order, was it? After all, it's peacetime. He wasn't being asked to secure a hill...or advance on a beachhead.
I mean, surely a marine of Dawson's intelligence can be trusted to determine on his own, which are the really important orders,
and which orders might, say, be morally questionable?

Lt. Kendrick?

Can he? Can Corporal Dawson determine on his own which orders he's gonna follow?

No, he can not.

A lesson he learned after the Curtis Barnes incident, am I right?

I would think so.

You know so, don't you, Lieutenant.