It was funny how Johnnie being punished almost felt... like a much smaller event because of the way it was framed by the other two.
Like the first guy, that was drawn out by the fact he didn't seem to know he was wrong and how the others tried to help him kind of understand he fucked up.
The third guy, that was really huge and he wasn't even there for a long time. He wasn't really part of the group.

But Johnnie just fucked up real quick, got his punishment and in a way, it was the least shocking to read, at least to me. Almost like it just had to happen eventually.

A lot of his experiences are very... understated. The thing with the skull earring, for example. He gets it and then it doesn't even matter anymore, because he is in a new group now and it's not a thing they do there.
Really works well with the way some things are written; like how he just ended up enlisting. Things just happened that way.