Duty Calls Quotes

“What did he do?’ I asked, curious in spite of myself, and Amberley shrugged, with the whining of servos I was beginning to become so familiar with. ‘Cracked under pressure. He ordered an entire platoon executed for failure to salute a superior officer in the middle of an artillery barrage, and shot seven troopers himself with his sidearm before he was brought down. Tragic.’ ‘It happens.’ I shrugged too. ‘Some junior officers just can’t take the pressure of combat. That’s why we have commissars.’ ‘He was a commissar,’ Amberley said, and I looked at the poor wretch with a curious amalgam of horror and pity.”
― Sandy Mitchell, Duty Calls