can we assume the "Patient Marine Officer" mode bears no resemblance to the "Marine Gunny" YOU DID WHAT mode?
One is like a volcano that is about to explode. The other is spewing hot lava and molten death.
With a couple of exceptions though, I don't really remember hearing a lot of yelling from my senior enlisted advisors. In hindsight, there may have been a good reason for that... "Sir, are you going to PT this afternoon? Could you please go PT for a while? Preferably go for a long run off in the woods? Or off base?" My last First Sergeant had a habit of bringing in his trouble makers and malcontents while I was stuck in staff meetings or off on my usual late afternoon PT... Despite that, I will say that most of my Gunnies and First Sergeants were really patient and compassionate servant leaders. They were actual leaders, not authoritarians. Most of my experience with authoritarians was at the hands of insecure officers who weren't worth a crap. At my last duty station, however, I could hear the First Sergeant from the adjacent company two or three buildings away. It was like a mad minute or a dump ex, followed by report to the company commander, "Sir, you aren't going to believe this..." That First Sergeant was a prior DI who never really left the drill field.
My NCOs were another matter though...
I remember this awesome sergeant I had just destroying these two fat bodies who he caught eating McDonalds in the parking lot. He came back from noon chow and they were sitting in the car gorging on burgers and fries. When they saw him coming, they tried to duck down and hide in the car. They knew what they were doing was wrong. The ass-chewing was epic. When it kicked off, literally every officer in the section poked his head out of his office. I told them to let it go on and that I would intervene only if the sergeant put himself in legal danger. There was no way I was going to let some overzealous lieutenant undermine my sergeant's authority. After that, I ordered all my junior officers to listen carefully, then write down the time and date, with a brief summary of the incident, in case the fat bodies tried to accuse the sergeant of hazing or maltreatment. As it turned out, I was right. The fat bodies did make an accusation, but it went nowhere once we turned over all the witness statements to the colonel. Stuff like that shouldn't be necessary, but it, unfortunately is in the current Corps. One of the reasons I got out...
But, I digress from the thread... Sorry.