Lieutenant unsure if platoon behaving better or just not getting caught

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif.— First Lt. Connor Boyd, a weapons platoon commander with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, spent this past Sunday nervously staring at his phone, waiting for the inevitable call from his platoon sergeant.

Boyd explained, “I’ve been here for a year, and until recently, we had at least one incident every single weekend.”

He …