Once we were deployed, he spent a lot of time in the G-2 section sitting in front of the map talking to [me and] the Marines that worked for me, because he wanted to make sure that if he had a question or he wanted a response from them, that there was a rapport between him and the corporals and the sergeants that were there—that they would be able to talk to each other, that the sergeants wouldn’t be so intimidated that they wouldn’t be able to think.
