Oh, hell. Was it too late to change his mind and declare this a bad idea? Maybe he could say Steve had sent him back with a group, but they'd been caught by a Nazi patrol and he was the only one who'd survived?
Looking around quickly, James spotted a relatively quiet area behind a row of unoccupied tents, and waved them over quickly. As soon as they were out of sight he turned on them. "Okay, fastest fucking Basic Training anyone has ever received - I ain't an officer, I work for a living, so it's Sergeant, not sir. And for God's sake don't salute anyone while you're standing with me, I'm the highest rank in the unit so I'm the one who interacts with everyone else."
Was it his imagination, or did Palmer look disappointed? Christ, it really should have occurred to him that none of these guys had even been near an Army base before - unless it was to steal something out of one. Literally everyone James had worked with since joining the Army more than seventy years ago - or last year, depending on how you looked at it, since it was currently 1944 - had been at least paramilitary if not outright Army.
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Date: 2016-05-29 04:17 pm (UTC)Looking around quickly, James spotted a relatively quiet area behind a row of unoccupied tents, and waved them over quickly. As soon as they were out of sight he turned on them. "Okay, fastest fucking Basic Training anyone has ever received - I ain't an officer, I work for a living, so it's Sergeant, not sir. And for God's sake don't salute anyone while you're standing with me, I'm the highest rank in the unit so I'm the one who interacts with everyone else."
Was it his imagination, or did Palmer look disappointed? Christ, it really should have occurred to him that none of these guys had even been near an Army base before - unless it was to steal something out of one. Literally everyone James had worked with since joining the Army more than seventy years ago - or last year, depending on how you looked at it, since it was currently 1944 - had been at least paramilitary if not outright Army.