Adorable.

Is when the guy who's supposed to be this fearsome creature who is in charge of discipline very gingerly pull your ear, after you tell him that your Individual Physical Proficiency Test (IPPT) scores allowed only a silver award.

'Cheebye, Dick, so fit you still dare to get silver only.'

Which is adorable. Kind of like a parent playfully conveying disappointment in a child who has been skiving off and not fulfilling has potential. Which I guess in a way, he is. He is a parent with young children. And, as much as the men in camp dislike whatever stupidity that happens as a result of his actions, I guess he's just a harmless person trying to do his job the way he best knows how. Mostly, people are inherently nice. In the eternally wise words of the band Simian, 'We are your friends!', at least that's what I like to think.