"It's really strange. Back at the Garrison we had to test to even quality to attend. We had courses, flight simulators, practice flights, and you were competing with everyone else in your year for a slot." It was a gauntlet and he climbed to the top of it. Sometimes he looks back at that time and wonders how many have made it since he left Earth.

Who kept throwing themselves into it? But it's a passing idle thought. "I brought this up to Hunk...but we're going to look into what technology they have available and see if we could develop flight simulators."