We're all in this together

It was our first class on the first day of basic training to be taught by a commissioned officer. We were all training to be non-coms. The thing about a commissioned officers is that whenever you say something to one, you have to end your sentence with sir. Or, begin with sir if asking a question. It's a pretty simple rule and we were taught it right before that class. But one of the guys, one of the guys could not remember to do it. The first time he gets called on it, he says sorry, and the teacher says, "sorry what?". Even when apologizing for screwing up by not saying sir, he still didn't say, "sorry sir." This quickly led to him getting twenty-five push-ups assigned to him, to which the lieutenant (pronounced left-tenant) says that he expects to see him perform them during the break.

Come break time we're all outside, and he walks off a bit in order to do his push-ups. And one of the guys, he sees him and he says to us that he shouldn't be doing them alone. That we're all in this together and if he has push-ups, then we should all have push-ups. So we all walk out onto the field, and we all drop and do twenty-five.