"I think Lena was friendlier with her than I. Still, that's regrettable. Not just for the obvious reasons but because we could have used someone with her skills.  " If it had been soldiers from his old unit, he might take all of this harder. But the cold truth was he just didn't know any of the people lost well enough for their deaths to hit him on a personal level. Even in the abstact, grander scale he'd seen more mass death and carnage than this, than he cared to recall.