Johnson is an accountant, actuary and office statistician the SNAT and serves as the personal assistant to Col. Grendel. He is exceptionally gifted at number crunching and can generally calculate the statistically probably results of a given source of action with computer-like speed, a talent that makes him invaluable to Hellcats management. As a government contractor, he is technically a civilian and has no formal rank, however as Grendel’s personal assistant, he effectively wields a great deal of power at Starbase Gamma.
sarcasm is a sign of advanced intelligence, according to the humans who made up the concept
And I’m sure they were being utterly sincere.