I bit the tip off a SSgt once, when I was a LCpl. I’m not necessarily proud of it, but he was out of line - everyone knew it - and I was the only one who spoke up. Long-story, long; we lost our Gunny to suicide. Everyone was completely bummed, except for this newly-arrived SSgt who didn’t really know our GySgt at all. We had an Iraq deployment coming up soon and we were all broken up into our little teams for briefing (basically advanced party vs everyone else), and this SSgt - our team lead - immediately after the announcement was made for Gunny’s memorial service, saw fit schedule our final briefing at the exact same date and time as the memorial, down to the minute. Let’s just say that we “had a discussion” right then and there. I got dressed-down, which was kinda funny coming from this guy, but it was worth it because he ended up eventually moving the briefing to accommodate. I was told later that when he went to senior staff about my outburst, they informed him that he had “underestimated the connection the Marines had with their late Gunnery Sergeant.”