Cooler heads prevail. Extortion
When I was young (a very long time ago) my uncle, Sam spent a lot of time and effort training me to do his bidding and then shipped me to Southeast Asia. I was a snot nose kid in the 75th Airborne. Good thing for me there were many more experienced guys who were experts and had been in that Ranger unit for a long time. Cooler heads do prevail. If there is any number of unforeseen problems that arise, there are often many ways to handle it but they don't involve just shooting off at the hip. Suppressive fire can take many forms but the men with experience and rank determine the logistics in tight situations.
Here we have a situation where one guy is taking some tricky fire. I think we would have put him at risk and acted irresponsibly to just shoot off at the hip.
I have also been the victim of larger scale extortion. I did not have the luxury of having the help of others but it would have made a huge difference to me.
I think if Benz or Sponge really saw an imminent threat, they would make the right play. Benz is one of those experienced guys. Good to let it happen in a controlled way I think.