===Observation Lounge === Gary stood patiently in the middle of the lounge waiting for the ODA commander to arrive. They had all been assembled upon Walsh's request. The buzz was there was a new mission and they were about to get their orders. Little was known about exactly what the mission was. Some of the more eager ones prayed that it was some full out combat. In the back of gary's mind he had hoped so as well, but did not let it slip out that was his wish as well. As the senior nco he could not talk of such things, and as senior nco, he knew the odds of a full blown fight was slim. Gary focused on the pad in his hands. He was working on individual training for the various specialties in the oda. Prior to the assembly he had gathered several scenarios from the SSF archives he thought would be useful. He chose 4 in particular; ANTI-TERROISM TRAINING, SPECIAL RECONNAISSANCE, UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE , COMBAT SEARCH AND RESCUE. He felt that each of them would provide valuable training in areas the oda had not previously trained or experienced. Each of the holo programs could be used for single and multiple team training, allowed for a wide variety of known and imagined species opponents and a full range of environments. Gary had forwarded the information along with his recommendations of which one to begin with to Walsh and Mcknight. One thing Gary could not find to his satisfaction was a holo program for each of the specialties in the ODA that would test and challenge them. Sure there were the standard holo programs that were used in basic SSF training, but they were generic, and predictable. So Gary decided that a little personal holo programming for individuals was in order. As he waited for Walsh to show up he tapped away at his pad and finished off his first custom program. As Walsh walked in to the room and McKnight Called attention, Gary neatly tucked the padd under his left arm and stiffened up. The command of "at Ease from Walsh. Gary relaxed a bit and listened to Walsh and the mission the ship was apparently on. Gary was just as enthused, as Walsh seemed to be. If everything went according to the senario, there would be no combat and a lot of walking the desks making sure some rogue romulan did not mysteriously beam in to main engineering to look at the latest and greatest the Starfleet engineers had to offer. But at least there would be something to keep the oda members busy, even if it was baby sitting and ships security. Letting Walsh's words pass over him, he started to formulate a training schedule. He soon snapped back to reality when he heard Walsh tell the newest member of the oda ordered to work with Gary on individual training. {The old man and I must be thinking alike} he thought barely cracking a smile. As Walsh dismissed the formation, Gary turned and scanned the crowd for the new private. He had seen a personel file on the romulan private. He half wondered if Walsh assigned Mondana more because she was romulan, and the romulans were invited to the little "negations" that were being held, or may be because she was a private. Either way, Gary had his orders and that was that. Not seeing the private, he headed out of the lounge and to his office. Since he had some one to train immediately he needed to prepare for it. And he needed every minute he could squeeze out, in a few hours he was going to have to stop his work once again, and attend his ship physical that was due. ===End Log=== PO1 Gary Willaims Operations Specialist