240510.13 ODA CO's Personal Log, Major Jack Walsh
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Date(s): 2005-10-13
== /\ USS Gott; ODA Headquarters /\ ====
The Gott wasn't exactly set up to house the ODA, when he said he was in
ODA HQ he was actually in a rather low spec Security Office for a
Starfleet Naval ship. The Office was a lot smaller than his on the
Chimera, well, not that it was around anymore. He'd heard a lot of the
crew complaining that they were only able to take one or two personal
items at best, and those were the lucky ones who seemed to find the time
to set aside some time to go looting.
For Walsh he had everything he needed that was dear to him. His hand
stroked the barrel of the pulse pistol that he kept with him on all
missions. It wasn't exactly SSF Regulation, but the only people on the
ship that would be able to tell were The General and Corporal Cortez,
and Cortez wasn't exactly going to be putting a note in his report about
it.
He travelled light, a duffel with a uniform, whatever book he was
reading at the time and a bottle of whisky or something of equal foul
taste. Leaning back he grabbed the PADD tighter in his hands and
grimaced slightly reading down the list of casualties. The ODA had
suffered the brunt of losses on the mission, it was going to need to be
completely reorganized and restructured.
They never did Find Lieutenant Scotts body for one.
Interestingly enough, Jack was having a lot of hassle with Special
Forces Command vis-a-vis restaffing the unit. They would of course give
him the men he needed, but apparently it was pending a review.
He assumed that meant because there was such a high level of casualties
they were going to be looking into the Unit Commanders ability, which
meant the buck ultimately stopped with him, and if they decided that
they needed someone to crucify for this it was going to be his neck on
the plate, nobody else's.
Politics.
Sliding out of his chair nonchalantly he made his way out into the main
area, which was a state to be honest, wrecked consoles about the place,
blood on the walls, possibly a stray limb over in the far corner of the
room, but nobody could be arsed to go and have a look for fear of
finding the rest of the body.
A Small group of the team were huddled around a turned over console
playing poker and drinking whatever alcoholic beverages they so desired.
The General or Commander Guzman could walk in at any moment, but frankly
Jack didn't care, his Officers, men and women alike had endured a
supremely shitty time and he wasn't going to pull them up just yet. He
assumed that SSF would have to assign them a new ship, they couldn't
keep this one, it was either about to be decommissioned or scrapped for
spare parts.
Moments later his Comm. Badge Chimed and an unfamiliar voice informed
everyone in a shipwide announcement that the USS Gott was now restricted
access only, which meant everyone would have to vacate. Tapping the
pistol on his hip to make sure that it was still there he nodded to the
small unit who were now looking at him.
"You heard the desk jockey. Pack up and ship out" Walsh turned on his
heel and made his way out of the Offices and towards the nearest
airlock, where there seemed to be a bit of a pile up, everyone was
trying to get off at the same time and it was causing a bit of ruckus.
"Corporal Pressman, Lieutenant Errington." Assume Sentry Duty at the
airlock and post a man every 20 meters down this main access corridor to
ensure the smooth flow of people off the ship, all this pushing and
shoving isn't going to get us anywhere" Jack growled pushing a
Lieutenant off him and marching past everyone out of the Airlock onto
the station.
Great, no ship, no quarters, no entertainment. Just a bar that if they
remembered his face he wouldn't bloody be able to drink there.
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Major Jack Walsh
ODA Commander
USS Chimera, SSF