A few months later Adam stood in line with other recruits gettin yelled at by some angry jarhead and insulted like he was some mamas boy constantly saying "yes sir thank you sir may i have another sir three bags full sir" next up the sargeant ordered them all to go for a run full kit 5 miles.

Adam started out running a private next to him newly arrived looked over and asked "what you do to piss the sargeant off so much for?"

adam laughed "ive been here 3 months. ONI put me in on a class near completion he doesnt think im ready so he rides me hard. it doesnt matter we need the troops you know."

the kid looked barely old enough to shave and said " my name is private jimmy johnson im hoping to be a driver. theres an old family legend im named after an umpteenth great grandfather that did some nascar driving any clue what that may be?"

Adam laughed "Nascar was the best of all sports in the 20th century in my personal opinion, i got bored once and looked it up they raced cars in circles goin upwards of 200 mph i got a holdof some videos it was a soothing sport. there was a driver named jimmy johnson. lets see how you do in a warthog in a few months and if your good you can be my driver." adam laughs and then runs on keeping johnson in step.

a few hours later they reached the firing range most the recruits grabed MA37 assualt rifles and fired at the targets down range. Adam and one other recruit grabbed a DMR and took shots at targets farther downrange they had an unspoken challenge both tried to out do each other after the half hour of target practice adam had 25 bullseyes and the mysterious private had 26 bullseyes. adam field stripped his gun cleaned it and gathered up the spare casings to give to the armsmaster as did his oppenant. adam reached over to shake hands "your a pretty good shot ..." he trailed off fishing for a name.

the soldier took his hand and said " im private Rebecca Forsythe, your not bad yourself but i beat you."

adam laughed "ya you did and ive been in training a bit longer than you. Im Adam shook private first class. befre long we will be breaking into rifle squads id like you as my marksmen."

"we will see what happens." she repelied and took off to the armsmaster.

adam shook his head and noticed she had a fine ass before taking his gear up to get checked in. he went next to the mess tent and ran into a big guy- literally.

"hey now watch where you are going." the big guy says.

"easy there giant i didnt mean nothing by it im adam and you?" adam replied.

"names Barret Duke" the big black guy says "is this your first day?"

"nope came in middle of last class what bout you Duke?" adam aswered.

"this is my first day im hopin to get into heavy weapons and you?" Barret asks.

"squad leader first and maybe officer after awhile." adam responds with a laugh.

weeks pass and the newest class of marines train adam barret jimmie and rebecca become strong friends a perfect fire team. graduation day comes and it isnt bright uniforms and family watching with pride filled hearts. no graduation is a drop onto a covenant held world reinforcements to get civies out as much as possible, rumor has it that there is a spartan team on planet but thats just hearsay...

A/N well i stalled i couldnt figure a way toget them all thru basic and bonding so i just went with it now to the fight lets see how it goes