While his fellow pilots asked questions his mind was wandering thinking of how much he should try to make contact before the first mission as the odds are, it's a very optimistic result to expect everyone to be up to the job. Maybe even he himself would not make a cut.
His attention snapped back when when he heard a very important question asked: 
[quote=Silverwind Blade / Elane]"Do we have any information on the numbers and strength of the security forces?"[/quote] He heard a woman say, immediately noticing the very burring nature of her pronunciation of 'R' and judging by her smile, she was a veteran of the Panthers.

Then before he got to give it any more thought her question was answered and he wanted to hear it well;
[quote]"I can't give you a hard number, but I would expect at least two FRAMEs per vehicle. There are supposed to be four to five trucks...."
[/quote]He felt that there was something odd with the number of FRAMEs escorting the truck. what is worth 4 million in credits that is protected by roughly double the FRAMEs to transports. He did not get too long to linger with that question as another Person started to ask a question,
[quote=WilsonTurner / Harold]"I hope you'll allow me to get some more extensive command-and-control modules with a more specialized mech, soon, because I'm not much of a front line fighter. Not out of lack of skill, I'm just better at pointing out where things are goin' south, you know?..."[/quote]but it turned more to a rant not long after and he stopped paying attention to it. but still breaking a little smile as he knew that at least there would be chatter to lighten up the mood. 
[quote=Aristo / Cecilia]"If there are no further questions, you're all dismissed. Be ready to board your FRAMEs at 0700. Don't keep us waiting." 
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as prompted he went off and he wanted to make sure that his FRAME was up to the task so he went up to check on it, on his way when he came to the FRAME hangar and his what drew his attention was when he heard:
[quote=Cerberov / maia]"Gah!"[/quote]
he saw a man that was not at the briefing but he decided to get off the scene, he didn't want to make bonds before he knew they would make a cut, or if he did for that matter, feeling a little down about how he did turn his tail at the enemy while rest of his squad was slaughtered but reminding himself there was nothing he could have done for them, aside from living on in their stead. He pushed those thoughts aside as he came to 'Revenant', his own frame while not very personalized yet, he felt that naming his FRAMEs deepened his connection to it.

He went inside and looked over his equipment one more time, also running test on components so there would be no nasty surprises on the field. After looking over his FRAME he decided to have his cockpit open and wait for GO, casually looking over the frames of the others.