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I feel the same regarding Jr Enlisted not adhering to Standards as I do with Sr Leaders not enforcing the standard. I can be friendly but not your friend. I fully expect Jr's to follow proper custom and courtesy as I fully expect myself to follow the same C&C's.

There is a fine and distinct line between being friendly and being friends. Having a good rapport with your troops is one thing but when you blur the lines it has a tendency of getting sketchy. Once you get into the world of SNCO and Officers having working relationships as counterparts you may see things become friendly with the occasional BBQ but junior enlisted and leaders need to keep it professional. The few occasions where I have see things get too friendly it generally ends badly.

In my professional opinion, blurring those lines of separation will cause misconduct and undue injuries. That line is meant to be a professional boundary. If you relax it, both sides are put into comprised situations. You also need to understand under the military tangent, the business is war. I am sure that for those that have had to decide who goes where with who know what I speak of. There has to be an emotional disconnect or it comes down to a personal loss, not a position/billet/rank loss. Personally, it's a generation separation. The higher the rank, the less they want to know about what's trendy now, and the lower the rank, the less they care about how things were.