JSDF Base at Arnus Hill, Special Region, March 30th, 2017 15:30 local
Captain Scott Coady stood at rigid attention in front of General Hakama's desk, he General inspecting him from his chair. The General finally spoke, his English showing very little accent. "You may be at ease, Captain. I didn't call you hear to be formal." The Captain stood atease, his hands behid his back. "Thank you, Sir. With all due respect, why was I called here?" General Hakama stood "I called you here because your government wants American boots on the ground here, and I need you and your squad to go with Recon Team 3 and a few others on a recon mission deep into Imperial territory." Captain Coady thought for a moment, he and his compatriots at this SDF base were essentially contractors, they were Reserve and Guard soldiers called up to active duty individually. He still didn't know why they were here, but he spoke anyway. "General, Sir, I'd like to get my squad situated and equipped before we are actually sent out on a mission." Hakama shook his head and sat back down, folding his hands on his desk. "I understand, but you're needed elsewhere. I'll send the personnel files to your quarters, I want you to get to know the people you'll be working with. You'll be seeing a lot of each other after all." Coady looked at the General quizzically "Will that be all, Sir?" "Yes, actually, there are some weapons and vehicles that need field testing. I trust you and your team will be up to it?" The Captain smiled broadly, aside from recon this was his favorite thing about being in the Army "Yes, Sir!" He saluted, turned on his heel and left Hakama's office, closing the door behind him. Hakama looked back to his papers "He'll do just fine here." Captain Coady walked confidently back to the area of the base his unit occupied, returning salutes and greetings as he went.
Coady stopped by the vehicles his team had been given, an armored pickup truck with a heavy machine gun, a doorless Humvee, and a South African APC.
Mane didn't look up from his work cataloging their weapons "Hey, Boss. Meeting went well?" Coady sighed and adjusted his patrol cap "As well as you'd expect, which is actually pretty good. So, anything good?" Kirchner poked his head out of the APC turret's hatch "Aside from twenty year old vehicles and heavy weapons, pretty good." Mane grunted in agreement "A DsHKM, a MAG 58 for the APC, an M60, an experimental LWMMG, a SPAS 12, a Yugo M92, an Rk 95 TP, C8A3, assorted handguns in 9mm, Haines has his M240 Bravo, and you have your 1911." Coady nodded contently "Not bad, not bad at all." Coady notice they had an audience on the roof above their area, a group of young ladies and girls, attractive ones, too. "Don't look now, but we've got spectators." He said quietly. Mitz, their translator and SDF liaison, looked up from his book, he had been sitting on the tailgate of the pickup. "Yes, those are some of the Fleet Girls. I can recognize a few." Coady leaned against the truck next to him "Yeah? Which ones?" "Well, from here I can see Atago and Takao, the Kongou sisters, Yamato, I think Hibiki and U-511, too." Kirchner tried to look busy "I guess they wanna see the best America has to offer!" Haines, the teams grenadier "If they wanted the best, they'd be here for ME!" Magerfliesch, the teams Combat Controller yelled from their shared tent "Haines! Your Trombley is showing!" Stotz and Marco laughed from their resting spot under some camo netting. Haines rolled his eyes "Ha ha you're SO funny, Cody." Captain Coady looked over to the other side of their vehicles and saw a bunch of what appeared to be World War Two era tanks with...schoolgirls inspecting and cleaning them. "Huh...so the Tankery schools ARE real...I guess I owe people a bunch of money." Whitt giggled "Yeah, and I'm one of them!" She went back to fiddling with the radio pack.
Atago and the other Fleet Girls watched the Americans with blatant curoisity. Their varied uniforms were the most curious. "I thought they all wore the same uniform?" Atago thought out loud. "They must be from different branches." Hiei, Kongou's younger sister said. Hibiki spoke up in her usual monotone "They are from different branches. I heard the GSDF requested a multi-service team to go on a recon mission with Team 3 soon." Atago smiled "The Captain is pretty cute, huh?" "Which one is the Captain?" Asked Haruna, another one of the Kongou sisters. Atago giggled as Captain Coady waved at them "He's the one in the cap leaning against that truck." Atago waved at him, and he tipped his cap at her. Takao nudged her sister ships arm "Looks like someone has a suitor!" Atago blushed a little "S-stop, Takao.." Takao patted her sisters head "Aww you're so cute when you're embarressed!"
Coady watched the Fleet Girls start bickering "I wonder what they're saying...I guess learning the language would help"
Mitz chuckled "I'll try to teach you when we have free time, but they can speak English very well" "Oh...that makes things a bit easier." Coady glanced back up at them "That blonde one is cute, the one in blue with the beret."He walked over to the table where the weapons they'd been given had been layed out Mitz looked up from his book for a second "That's Atago, and the girl she's arguing with is Takao, her older sister. I could introduce you if you like?" Coady picked up the Rk 95 "I don't think that will be necessary, I know she's one of the girls being assigned to our recon team. Anyone have any idea which Tankery teams are going with us?" He slung the rifle over his shoulder. Kirchner poked his head out ot the Ratel turrets hatch "When ARE we leaving anyway?" Coady picked his body armor up off the table "Wouldn't you like to know?"