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Jon dropped back into standard position, stark straight behind back- the ideal image of a soldier.

[b]"...For now, how many of you have been on assignment before?" Alice openly addressed the crew.

"Dutch, open up Chen's service record and that of everyone else on the open roster of the Salient," he ordered the AI, in his suit. He quickly perused the record of everyone on board, he had to suppress a smirk when he saw Thaddeus on the roster, another pet of the super soldier project. Probably a more stealthy model of the same suit he was wearing.

"I have ma'am," he addressed Alice over the suits speakers, she had an impressive record-a bit on the ambitious side- but impressive. He forwarded his on record, detailed all the way up to this morning so it mentioned him partaking in a project for the brass while aboard the ship, and his highly unwanted political bullshit double rank jump of less than twenty-two hours ago.

"If you don't mind I sent you a copy of my record, I'd like you to ignore the last line," he specifically requested she ignore the line pertaining to his rank jump. On the other hand he figured she'd be pleased to have a soldier with no less than 16 orbital drops, 23 infiltration missions, 42 rescues, 4 active deploys, 9 deep behind line deployments, 31 shock missions,5 classifieds and 13 blatantly labeled suicide ops. All of which were executed well within "flawless" parameters.

He didn't know if he could personally get along with this ambitious woman, but no hurt in trying and if nothing else she'll make a splendid CO he was certain of that.