Sometimes, the New Meat isn't a grunt. Sometimes, he's put in charge. Ensign Newbie is a young officer, fresh out of the Academy, who is given command of The Squad. Sometimes, he was top of his class, and as such was put in command of the best unit in the force, for whatever reason, or maybe he was a prankster, or dated The General's Daughter, and got saddled with a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits nobody else wanted. Sometimes, he's both. What the British army calls, with despairing affection, a Rupert. And heaven help him if the unit happens to be All-Female... Examples of Ensign Newbie include: