Are You a Maggie Childress?

I had this Captain at Officer Training School when I was in the Air Force: Maggie Childress.

She could ride you like nobody else. Get up in your sh** and make you produce. When she wasn't around, other officer candidates would complain fiercely about her.

• "Who does she think she is?"

• "WTF? Can't I ever get a break?"

• "I don't like her."

When they'd try to get me to join in their kvetching, I had one question for them: "Does she make you better?"

And they always had the same answer, mixed among their protests and whines: "Yeah, she does. She makes me better."

End of story.

Are you a Maggie Childress?

Or are you just somebody's best friend for an hour?