Interesting contrast. The smiling ones are the ones you need to worry about because they are only in it for themselves and trying to figure out how to use you for that purpose. Otherwise to them you are nothing. The scowling ones are scowling because they are trying to get something done in a system that inevitably screws up everything useful you try to get it to do. If you are not his present problem you’re doing just fine. Rickover was like that. When someone complained that the way he came across it sounded like he didn’t trust people to do a good job. His respone - if I thought you weren’t doing your job you wouldn’t be here.
Bachelor in Journalism, she’s well-prepared for modern military challenges, no doubt.. she clearly was taught how to write and, hopefully, read..