I should have mentioned the convention game I played last year. The group made a conscious decision to make someone who professed no military knowledge or experience as the LT and convoy commander. The guys with experience (none of them former officers) took the higher-ranking NCOs or infantry-MOS characters. The wheels came off pretty quickly.
I was a Sp4 driver for the Topkick in the lead truck, and he spent nearly as much time yelling at me as he did shooting the enemy. He wanted the HMMWV to stand still in the kill zone, and I wanted to get out of it. (That's 'cause HE wasn't the one getting hit!) The Lt. didn't command much (IMO), and most of the convoy sat outside the kill sack and watched.
So, we mostly obeyed the chain of command, after showing a healthy disrespect for it.
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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