Spotter - Well said and very astute. Has to be said they did seem to spend there lives swimming in shark infested waters with little or no top cover on a lot of occasions.
The wise ones took any help that was offered, some, however, did not deem advice or help from anyone on the Ops side of TG9 as worthy of any notice.
Hence on more than one occasion I watched the wise old JNCO pass Sir a shovel as he dug deeper and deeper.
I found it hard not to give up on them at times, in fact if I am honest I did on one of them, not a proud event for any SNCO, but particularly galling for me as I knew I was directly affecting the assistants that worked for me in Ops who had to suffer this fools actions.