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Officials said he “took immense pride” in being the first sergeant on the Sheriff’s Overdose Response Task Force.

The first sergeant in charge of Mr. Andes’ platoon, she said, was having trouble, too.

She also befriended Hillary, a former reporter whose marriage to a first sergeant meant that the couples could not socialize as a group — the Army still maintains many rank-based rules and traditions.

Al Pacino played the blind man; Mr. Goldman told The Times that he borrowed aspects of his father, one of his brothers and his Army first sergeant in writing the part.

Her first sergeant told Diaz, who is a Black Puerto Rican woman, that he didn’t believe saying the n-word was “a big deal.”