"Another question, sir. What about our current gear? Will it be modified sufficiently for the mission at hand?"

Near the back of the room, Cho kept his hand raised. All this time he'd sat in quiet, deep thought, the discussion and question asking going mostly over his head. When it got to the issue of firearms though, he'd gotten concerned. Here they were talking about railguns and air guns and still no one saw the issue that he'd seen: these soldiers were equipped with their own individual gear. He himself had his sniper rifle, his pistol, his SMG, but for them to be modified in a way that would make his regular maintenance drills...moot? He had to get to the bottom of this. And speaking of the bottom of things...

The base itself was a marvel to Cho. Never before had he seen a full military base...on the water before. Floating cities, yes, but only in movies or in books. This was something else entirely. It had a full submersible bay, docks, even a full-sized hangar and runway for incoming aircraft, along with a helipad for good measure. The whole place was a rounded out, honest-to-goodness base, facilities and everything. His chopper ride onto the grounds was a memory he'd keep with him for a good long time. Now that he was here, though, the only thoughts he entertained were those of quiet, contemplative vengeance. To issue down destruction onto the beasts that had claimed the lives of half his family...this he had sworn the moment he had taken up his rifle and dug into the first snowbank in the mountains during his special forces training. He had suffered alongside friends, comrades who would fight other wars, die in them, be honoured, but none as strange or as important as his personal fight against the demons from below. Right now his full arsenal was locked away in a gun locker in his bunk, but soon he would unleash it unto the evils that lay beneath the waves.

Right now, though, he focused on the task at hand. If he couldn't get a full grasp of the situation before they jumped right in, he'd be out of place and a burden on the team. So might as well he ask all on his mind, right? With hand still raised, Cho continued.

"And sir, may I ask about the conditions we will be fighting in? I understand fully the implications of land-based fighting, if there is any, but what about underwater? Will there be any more signficant natural hazards we will face, and if there are, what sort of equipment or gear will we be given to neutralise these dangers?"