Jack had  mostly slept on his trip from Anchorage to Hong Kong. He guessed that he would be the youngest member there when they finally arrived. Even though he was rather young, Jack had been stationed in the Anchorage Shatterdome as an engineer like his father had been. He had enjoyed the job but had definitely wanted to take the fight a bit closer than his father had wanted him to. So he had to go behind the other man's back to start training on the simulator and begin combat training from a former Marine. In his 20 drops he had managed to get 18 kills. The first one was because he was new to the whole thing and the second one was because he was distracted. It was that drop that his father had finally learned why Jack was always late for his shifts. It took a good deal of negotiation but the old man decided to allow his son to keep training. Eventually Jack got tapped to go to the Hong Kong Shatterdome to get a drift partner. Jack liked to think he was a decent fighter. He could handle himself in a fight with people or Kaiju.

  
Jack got off the chopper and stood there waiting to be acknowledged. He had been trained to basically be a soldier even though he had never been in an army. He stood as still as a statue even as the snow landed on his head. He was born and raised in Alaska. He was use to running barefoot in the snow to toughen him up. So a snowstorm in Hong Kong did not phase him at all. He waited until he was told that they were going inside.