The guidon-bearer was placed by the battery commander to mark the right of the gun line, with the gun platoon aligned to his left.

Before he met you, he was such a whore. No, I'm sorry! Whores get paid. He was a slut.

A war gets fought between authenticity and hokum in Short Term 12, and it ends in an uneasy truce. … As it goes along, however, Short Term 12 increasingly succumbs to a screenwriter's worst impulses, becoming neat and tidy in ways that undermine what’s so good about it.

Her inimical attitude precludes romance.