The word of the day is adjutant:
a staff officer in the army, air force, or marine
corps who assists the commanding officer and is responsible especially
for correspondence (Merriam-Webster)
"Klay writes with a powerful restraint about the inversion of normal reality called combat, its permanent effects on bodies and souls, but the best stories in 'Redeployment' look at war from a slight distance. The narrator in 'Unless It's a Sucking Chest Wound,' a battalion adjutant, has the inglorious job of writing up the heroics of other marines being nominated for medals...
"The adjutant is one among many troops−their numbers grew over time−who spent their war almost entirely within the confines of an American base."
- George Packer, "Home Fires: How soldiers write their wars", 7 April 2014 The New Yorker
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