Oliver noticed how Raise was dragged out of her comfort zone. It was clear to the tiger that Raisa wasn't really used to getting flirted with. Her reaction of formally introducing herself and calling Oliver "sir" was rather cute. He could see the relieve on her face when colonel Blade entered the briefing room and started to speak. The fox girl shifted her attention towards the briefing and Oliver decided to not disturb her concentration for now. After all, the young Tiger would participate in this exercise too. 

Oliver listened as the colonel started to explain the training mission. The old fox made it sound so easy. Go in, recon the place, take out the defenders, extract information and return safely to the claw with the hostages. For a moment he wondered how well the unit would work together. The 101st is a pretty diverse group and when it comes to combat experience, some of them including the tiger himself are lacking. It would be interesting to see how things would work out and if Oliver himself would not look to bad during the mock combat of the exercise.

The young tiger pulled out his PADD and pressed the on button. The device immediately booted towards the custom OS he was running on his PADD. With one tab on the screen all the details from the OP where downloaded onto the build in SSD. There wasn't much info on the bad guys but the colonel had given one crucial piece of information. They were played by other LDF units. Most likely they would use LDF equipment, radio frequencies and LDF encryption algorithms for securing the wireless communication. This would make searching for their communications frequencies a bit more easy. With a bit of luck they might use a known encryption key and make decrypting their communications a bit more easy.

With another press on the screen the LOADOUT app of Oliver's GEAR was started. The APP provided a multitude of options to customize the load out of his GEAR beyond weaponry. From here he could select different weapon systems, sensor packages and even software modules to be loaded onto the GEARS computers. All the changes would be transmitted towards the maintenance crew who would install the different components prior to the operation. The young Tiger selected to upload some of the encryption key tables he had put together during his training period on the base to the GEAR's and switched his standard jamming antenna to a model that has a greater output on the frequency ranges deployed by the LDF. The only thing that was a shame was that data of the selected load outs wasn't shared automatically with his fellow pilots. That is something that has to change for the next OP.

For a moment Oliver thought about this issue. If he's going to code a new program, he needed someone to test it with. Someone who could provide additional feedback and who might also enjoy working on such things. The tiger needed a volunteer and already knew who to ask. With one tab on the screen he loaded his chat program and started the write a message. "Yo Shona, can you code a bit? I was thinking of writing a new program to select our GEAR load-outs with that automatically shares our choices with our units. Wanna help?"

As Oliver waited for Shona's response he turned towards Raisa again. Things had been quietly down a bit as everyone was looking at their PADD's for info on the exercise. "You don't have to be formal with me. I'm a private like you. No need to call me sir, Oliver is enough. Nice to meet you Raisa Yurievna Biryukova. I'm Oliver Stone"