In person security briefings have a certain “pucker factor” that you don’t get by mearly reading. I don’t think Obie has the guts to sit through them.
“. . . that you don’t get by mearly reading. . .”
I don’t assume he reads them. Getting them and reading them are two different things. 9th grade boys in school have to be quizzed on materiel they’d been given. Getting and reading are quite different. Ob operates on their level, as far as I can tell.