It was good to hear. Not that Yancy assumed the cadet was here for laughs in the first place -anyone who'd already jumped the hoops once before knew it wasn't anything to take lightly. But it was always good to hear some fire in them anyway. Any one of those cadets could be along on a mission soon. It was good if they had their heart in the game. Maybe this one just needed to work on his head.

"I read your file." Not that he's actually supposed to tell them that, but no one expressly forbid it anyway. As soon as the kid saw him in a classroom he'd probably have guessed as much anyway. "Ranger Martin takes point with those matters. Talk about it if you want, but I'm not making any official requests. Alright?" Yancy was active duty. If the kid was cleared, he was cleared. Nobody would be questioning that.