She really does seem to perk up, talking about her job. The system itself might make him rankle, but it sounds at least like Tayrey got the long straw in the whole deal. That much he can be glad for, for her.

"Me? Plenty. I took a plane to get to Korea, we usually take them back and forth between Seoul and Tokyo, and then we take choppers- helicopters I mean- to get anywhere around Korea in a hurry. They don't go up very high, but the cabin's open, so it feels like less of a tin can than planes do. Less cute girls in choppers though, unless you bring your own."

Another sip of his drink,

"Couple of times I had to get flown in for a field operation at the front. That, that wasn't fun. You feel that open cabin a lot more when bullets are flying past."