>>39020020She has that seriousness that I could see her being a competent leader if willingly put to the task. Maybe she'd take things too seriously, but at least she'd care.
If you extrapolate further from that book the soundpost is from, the officer later took their platoon on a sight seeing tour of some of the Babylonian ruins in southern Iraq/ Kuwait when they had their first leave, to give them some historical context of the conflict that always persisted in the region, and some positive memories before they went home. Most, of course, didn't really care. 