User blog comment:Vazelos3/Coby as a Captain/@comment-109.65.110.153-20130611140146

Akainu is not the Marine's secretary I'm sure he couldn't give less of a fuck about who gets promoted. Besides, 2 years have passed - it was a difficult war and to expect an inexperienced young marine to be human killing machine off the bat is crazy. Sure Akainu would have killed him back there but he wouldn't go off his way to kill all the weaklings.

Or else he'd have to kill MANY MANY marines who're largerly just useless morons where it counts. So yeah Akainu doesn't give a flying shit about Coby anyway.