Firewood question - what would you do?

Sounds like a typical "officer" mentality. As long as he says it with authority and enough volume, it must be right. Now that he is living in the real world, he will be getting a wake up call soon.

I don't know about officer status, he said he got out of the army as a master sargent. Kept saying sir, but actions speak louder than sirs.
 
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