Why didnt Lt. Wolfe control Sgt Barnes and stand up to him?
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stevekaczynski — 9 years ago(July 11, 2016 10:56 AM)
Near the end, he gets told Barnes is missing and might be dead. His expression is hard to read - possibly "Damn, we're all dead if they even got Barnes" or "maybe this is my chance to get out from under Barnes". Probably irrelevant because he gets killed shortly after.
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The_Ultimate_Hippo — 9 years ago(July 11, 2016 12:22 PM)
I think he was thinking "damn we're all f-cked", he had a perfect chance to "get out from under Barnes", all he had to do was back up Elias and Barnes would have been court-martial-ed.
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stevekaczynski — 9 years ago(July 15, 2016 12:11 AM)
That is the more likely of the scenarios but he was afraid of Barnes as well as dominated by him, and there was perhaps an element of relief in hearing of his disappearance, mixed into the alarm which would probably be the dominant reaction.
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riddick-11114 — 9 years ago(December 18, 2016 07:16 PM)
I think that Barnes was a veteran Sgt and battle hardened survivor of the war, he had been in a lot of battles and was a warrior and ruthless, Wolfe was just a new officer right out of OCS and was doing his first tour of duty in the field, he was the equivalent of a Private and had never killed anyone before or been in combat at all yet, he was younger and very inexperienced and Barnes was an older man and had killed a lot of Vietcong in battles.
I think that Wolfe was in over his head and knew that Barnes was a proven leader, Wolfe had the book smarts and training but not the hands on experience, Barnes had the proven combat skills and leadership needed to lead men in battle, the men would follow orders from Wolfe but did not respect him yet, Barnes was feared and respected, so logically Wolfe hid behind Barnes and allowed him to control things.
Now if Wolfe had decided to order Barnes around and try to dominate him then things would have been interesting, Barnes might have resisted his orders and undermined him or just ignored him, not a good conflict of interest, that could have been worse. -
ToiletMug — 3 weeks ago(March 07, 2026 09:40 PM)
Because the guy was an incompetent pussy. And I also loved watching my hilariously disabled dad falling down some ridiculously steep steps in his rickety wheelchair — his stupid head thrashing from side to side, making stupid retard noises, as he plunges to his doom.