Derrick Van Orden: “Mandating people to call you sir leads to making them open…”

“Oh, nice. And I do that for a reason. So there's a lot of super important people in Washington, D.C. and if you don't believe me, ask them. They will. So Mandating people to call you sir leads to making them open doors for you leads to you start looking at them like furniture. And if you want to see me Senior Chief pissed, treat a person like furniture around me. Ain't going to happen. And we have to do that.” (50:47–50:52)

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