Yes, but that would require listening/reading the briefing! People have gotten used to fluffer briefings that are entirely vestigial in modern games!
As far as I'm concerned the original Wing Commander is the only game that DOESN'T have fluffer briefings. I don't know why more games don't try to emulate the briefing/funerals/ceremonies of the original Wing Commander. The best you'll ever see is some lame 5 second cutscene of your nameless character having a medal pinned on him. Even in Wing Commander II the briefings and funerals just lack the same depth they had in WC1.