Although Dennis was utterly disparaged by Tommy, sounding as if he had incurred the wrath of heaven and the hatred of man, in reality, within the military, that guy was like a fish in water just as he was in high school. In high school, except for his teachers who hated him, everyone loved him. It was the same in the army, where, aside from his superiors who disliked him, one could say that he had friends everywhere.
For example, his black classmate from West Point Military Academy, Glen, who had been under Dennis's "tutelage" for four years, had been the subject of bets more than once by the brothers from West Point's SSD on when Glen would no longer be able to bear Dennis's discrimination and exploitation and shoot him. But four years had passed, and each time, Dennis walked away with all the money.
