Q: How important is a sergeant first class is in the army?

A: Very important. On a day to day basis, he's the most important member of the platoon. He executes the orders from command, he keeps morale up, he talks the Lieutenant out of sending us on suicide missions, he keeps us fed, rested and safe.

That's why we have to kill him.

He's making the rest of us look bad, with his shiny buttons and his pressed pants and his hand full of all fingers and his complete lack of shooting his best friend by accident while drunk. If command catches wind of him,  they're going to start expecting a lot more out of us. They're going to start hanging around and giving us orders and sending us on missions and wanting us to win this war. That's going to be a real drain on our business.

It's going to be awfully hard to smuggle heroin home in cadavers with a whole lot of Generals sniffing around.