The primary difference between Lis's job and my job.

If my managers were actually my superiors in the military, and they sent me on a dangerous mission to take a strategic point, and I was the sole survivor, and had managed to barely take and hold the point, running out of ammo, and finally resorting to knife work to survive, but managed to actually take and hold the point and accomplish the mission, my managers would feel awful, blame themselves for giving us insuffient air support, pay generous benefits for the dead, give me lots of time off with pay to recuperate, and pin lots of medals on me.

If Lis's managers were actually her superiors in the military, and they sent her on a dangerous mission to take a strategic point, and she was the sole survivor, and had managed to barely take and hold the point, running out of ammo, and finally resorting to knife work to survive, but managed to actually take and hold the point and accomplish the mission, they would look at the situation, and say, "Hmm. In the final analyis, Lis held the point on her own, without any other people around, and using only a knife," and, the next day, there would be a memo sent out that they'd determined that guns and ammuninition were superfluous, and would no longer be provided.