Selene was among the last to reach the dropship. Some of the medications that she carried required precise temperature limits for long term storage and were only good for a few hours after they were taken from the ships extensive pharmacy. They had to be laboriously loaded into her suits storage magazines, a job that was a real trick without a corpsman or a tech to help. Her suit display read her medical equipment at 95% efficiency, she had switched out some of the recommend load in favor of her personal preference but there was no easy way to correct the suits assessment. She also had to collect hear weapons, a standard service pistol that she wore at her hip and a light carbine that was currently slung behind a shoulder on one of the armors many attachment points. No one expected a medic to really mix it up, but every marine a rifleman blah blah blah.

Marine dropships were big, but there is no space in the universe that is big when it is packed with dozens of Marines and their equipment. O'Henessey was standing outside, presumably to take the last slot in the ship so he could be among the first out. She jostled in past the other Marines as she forced her way into ship. Several Marines greeted her with everything between snarls of annoyance and friendly greetings as she moved down the cramped central gangway. Two black soldiers were sitting across from one another, their bulk blocking further advance. She cast a glance back over her shoulder, she was nearly half way to the back of the dropship. Standing orders dictate that a medic be stationed in the middle of an assault force. This prevented, in theory, the medic being hit immediately on disembarkation and from going down with the ship if it took an AA hit late in the drop. 

[color=0054a6][b]“Make room!” [/b][/color]she called, her helmet speakers projecting the words to be audible above the ambient noise. One of the soldiers reluctantly shifted and she sat down beside him, engaging the restraints that would lock her to the dropship. She cast her eyes over their weapons, one of them had what appeared to be a large thermal launcher, an unusual choice but something one might expect of a veteran.

[color=0072bc][b]“Any word on the drop time private?”[/b][/color]

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