I don’t know if it’s just that G&K don’t know any more about the military than that which they see on MASH reruns, or if it’s good writing having an 11 year old unsure of what the right terms are.
You call THAT an attack? If I attacked you, you’d know it. Sevenfeet0 made some good observations about character development and authors preference. I suggested you read them.
I worked with the Navy a while. I met a corpsman, his name was Harvey.