...Well at least he's alive and making some kind of noise.

Bush isn't so gentle now and shoves him upright, making sure he stays.
"Come on, Archie..." of course he has no idea what he is intending to ask of the lieutenant, and if pressed wouldn't be able to come up with anything practical. Just the kind of language he hears when folks try to converse with people unawares.

...

And it's perfectly useless, he knows now, and he damns the idiot who thought that would work in the first place.