"In any event, I'm not sure this is someone I would want in charge of my son or daughter if they were in a dangerous situation. I don't want to be unfair to this individual, but it does make me wonder."


Quite the opposite; a man like this would be your child's best chance of getting home alive, if they were combat arms soldiers. Men like this are the experts of the game and value force protection (keeping your soldiers alive). Regretably, people die in combat. The best chance is to know what you are doing (your job) and to be assigned to leaders that are the same way.