Charles did't really wait to much when he heard the alerts in the mess hall. He calmly walked to the barracks and found reached under his bed pulling out a black box, he reached inside in pulled out the desert-camo painted Kevlar armor from his service for the US. The Kevlar seemed to fit as well as it had and there was actually still a clip from his M9 still in one of the pockets. He then strapped the helmet he had spent a few nights upgrading in France, onto his head and went to the armory to see what he could grab that would be the best tactically for this mission. He spotted a rather old, but still quite pristine HK33 lying in the back he blew the dust off it and told the attendant he was gonna be taking it on this mission. To which he replied, "Man no ones touched that thing since I been here, I'm not even sure if its on record." After a quick search though the gun was in fact in the system and he told him all his information and went on his way. He quickly got the ammunition he needed and was at the drop ship waiting with the rest of the crew.

Unlike the usual helmet, he was wearing sort of a normal issued Kevlar helmet with a HUD visor that slid down in a single panel to his nose. The outside of the heads up display had the top half of a skull visible and he could change it to a blank state pretty quickly with a simple touch. He also had a scarf from Afghanistan rapped around his neck. He sat down on the drop ship and pulled out the cleaning kit he had stored in the compartment just under his left arm, on his side. He got to work making sure the acog was lined up and the mechanisms were clean.