Hackett had taken back to the window after the briefing. She adamently ignored the food; the 18 hour non-stop flight to Germany aboard a MC-130 with no bathrooms and a HALO jump shortly there after made the idea of eating hard to stomach, especially given they could be in hostile contact right after landing. Her mind wandered to the briefing and the mission, it all seemed straight forward. Her tactical mind scaled the cliffs and hardships bound to exist during the mission. Several things bothered her quite a bit but none of them would ever be voiced unless there were obvious options to remedy them. Civilians with no weapons training nor any weapons meant they were under strength, more bellies to feed and backs to watch than weapons to use, it meant they would always have to use extreme caution and that took time.<br/><br/>Then the pictures were there, in her mind Anna hadn't really pondered on them at all, she felt a little tinge of remorse of possibly having to fire upon a child, but like anyone in her line of work she compartmentalized immediately. She couldn't look at anyone not on the team as anything other than the OPFOR, Opposing Forces, or she may hesitate. Syria, Nigeria, Sudan, Cambodia, Thailand and even Afghanistan she'd seen kids with guns, kids wearing suicide vests and every other manner of horrors, but she slept every night without a stir because it didn't mean a damn thing. None of it, she had to remember that or lose her mind, none of it meant anything. Do, ignore, forget. She could smell the food and looked over her shoulder at the goodies, cursing her training for forcing her to ignore the definitely good smell.<br/><br/>Admiral Booth slapped Anna on the shoulder. "<em>A second, Senior Chief..</em>" He spoke and turned, like hell Hackett would say 'one second sir'. "<strong>Sir,</strong>" Anna replied and followed the Admiral to the corner. She followed the Admiral and stopped as he nodded to the two other officers with him. "<em>This is General Campbell, my Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Admiral Harper, J-SOC.</em>" He nodded to the men.<br/><br/>Anna saluted and both returned the salute. "<em>Senior Chief there are developments ongoing in J-SOC and up at SOCOM about the implications of this mission. Scientific intents aside</em>" Admiral Harper spoke first. "<em>We see this as a good chance to gain valuable combat intel on any OPFOR you encounter.</em>" The Admiral produced a small camera, about the size of a roll of pennies. "<em>This camera sends burst transmitions to us from your helmet via sat-burst, same frequency as your IFF tracker. We want you to, if possible, gather video intelligence on the non-combat aspects of life for anything you encounter, infected or God forbid, survivors.</em>"<br/><br/>"<em>Now listen, we aren't ordering you to initiate combat against anyone, the mission of protecting the science team is above all else your main goal, but sat coverage cannot effectively gather information since we only get 10-12 hours of good converage a week and that isn't enough. If the opportunity arises, conduct on site recon of anyone or thing you can safely watch without putting your mission at risk. We're also going to have a critical update frequency that we'll give to you at jump off to relay anything...shifty.</em>" General Campbell spoke, nodding over Anna's shoulder.<br/><br/>"<strong>Shifty, sir?</strong>" Anna replied, her eyes widening noticably as she looked over her shoulder at the rest of the group. "<strong>Sir, is there something I should be aware of...</strong>" she questioned as she turned back around to face the three men.<br/><br/>"<em>None of those people are under our command, and we know enough but not enough about them. Don't be surprised if they have other orders, I wouldn't assume anything serious but if it puts your mission at risk, inform us immediately. We don't suspect anything now, but they don't work for us, so we want you to be aware.</em>" Admiral Booth nodded. "<em>Also, anything you see.. on ground, regarding the infected or survivors, or your team, that you observe and may pose a threat to the United States; boats, planes or any modern technology like weapons or gear, immediately relay that information to us.</em>"<br/><br/>Anna accepted the camera from Admiral Harper and nodded, saluting, "<strong>Aye aye sir.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<em>Dismissed.</em>"