u/Upset-Baseball-4569

Total military noob here, but I have a recurring thought. When you watch movies and stuff, you've got the staff sergeant yelling and berating the recruits, right? How is the staff sergeant able to yell at the would-be officers? Don't they outrank him/her?

A moment is stuck in my head. Played ball with some randoms. Guy was on a fast break, coming full-pelt at me. I got in front of him and just stood my ground and put both arms in the air. He Euros and dodges me to his left and lays it in. Would he have done the gather-step to his right and quickly leapt to his left? I do that with a cone and I am simply not covering enough distance to lay it in comfortably.