Craig Heaney

I really don't like Cobb I know that we've spoken about dislikable characters like Sobel but they had a place in there and but Cobb just was he really like that and how poisonous could men like him be to the cohesion of the unit

well Roy Cobb is is interesting because he like you say he represents the the least attractive version of veteran hierarchy he's played brilliantly here by Craig Heaney.

And he behaves as though proximity to experience automatically gives him authority over people who arrive later.

Yet, like you said, Bull immediately punctures that by reminding him that Cobb himself did not actually fight on the ground in Normandy because he was wounded before getting there, which completely undermines him in front of those men.