Editing Halo 3: ODST Pre-mission Evaluation/Dutch

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== Dutch Interview ==
''{Dutch enters the room}''

'''Buck''': Corporal.

'''Dutch''': Need a baseline image? How about a bird?

''{Dutch's thoughts: a Pelican Dropship taking off.}''

'''Buck''': That'll work.

'''Buck''': Name and Rank?

'''Dutch''': Corporal Taylor H. Miles, everyone calls me Dutch. Buck, you really need to get in my head for this?

{Dutch's thoughts: Shadow of a soldier performing a salute}

'''Buck''': [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] wants to be thorough.

'''Dutch''': ONI's running this?

'''Buck''': Yes, ONI's running this.

'''Buck''': What led you to the ODST?

''{Dutch's thoughts: Marines in [[Dress Uniform (UNSC Marine Corps)|dress uniforms]], standing to attention, with [[MA5C Individual Combat Weapon System|MA5C]]s}''

'''Dutch''': Honor.

''{Dutch's thoughts: ODST Flag}

'''Buck''': What experience do you have with close-quarters combat?

''{Dutch's thoughts: Engaging a [[Jiralhanae|Brute]] in close-quarters combat.}''

'''Dutch''': Experience with close-quarters combat is extensive. You've got detailed accounts on engagements for [[Ariel]], [[Jericho Space Elevator]], and [[Coral]] asteroid belt in my file.

''{Dutch's thoughts: Fighting in various battlefields with other ODSTs}''

'''Buck''': As an ODST?

'''Dutch''': Yeah, I've succesfully engaged - you know, this should all be in my general file, Buck.

'''Buck''': I need to ask. You just need to answer. So?

''{Dutch's thoughts: Dropping in a HEV}''

'''Dutch''': As an ODST, I've succesfully engaged the enemy under various conditions, before and after orbital drop.

'''Buck''': We're looking at a textbook shipboard mission. An orbital drop to some [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] [[Regret's Carrier|Cruiser]] over [[New Mombasa]]. Nothing you haven't seen before.

''{Dutch's thoughts: A sign reading "Welcome to Tribute" in a devastated environment}''

'''Dutch''': Really? Like [[Tribute]]? Like [[Reach]]?

''{Video interrupted}''

'''Buck''': Corporal, do you feel you'll be able to operate at maximum effectiveness on this standard orbital drop mission?

'''Dutch''': Yes. One hundred percent, sir.

'''Buck''': Thank you.

'''Buck''': So how's [[Gretchen]]?

''{Dutch's thoughts: Gretchen. Helmet on with visor unpolarized, face mostly obscured}''

''{Pause}''

'''Dutch''': She's better.

'''Buck''': What do they say?

''{Dutch's thoughts: A shoulder of an ODST, reading "UNSC MED REF", and blood type A-}''

'''Dutch''': If it was up to her, she'd be coming on this drop - but they say she's done. Maybe something behind a desk, but i don't know.

''{Dutch's thoughts: Gretchen's face}''

'''Buck''': Well, I don't see her typing up reports.

'''Dutch''': No. Me neither.

'''Buck''': You were a trucker for a while, right?

''{Dutch's thoughts: A truck}''

'''Dutch''': I try not to think that far back.

''{Dutch's thoughts: Walking to a truck's door, opening it}''

'''Buck''': Can you still handle a rig?

''{Dutch's thoughts: Driving a truck}''

'''Dutch''': It's been a while, but I guess I could. You're trying to tell me I'm going to have to drive a truck into that Covenant bird?

''{Dutch's thoughts: Driving a truck in an industrial area. Covenant [[CCS-class Battlecruiser|Battlecruisers]] in the sky.}''

'''Buck''': You will get the details of the mission at briefing.

''{Pause}''

'''Buck''': Now the fifth man on this op is going to be [[The Rookie|a rookie]]. Transfer from the [[26th Marine Expeditionary Force|26th MEF]].

'''Dutch''': [[Battle of New Jerusalem|Cygnus]]? Didn't think there were any survivors.

''{Dutch's thoughts: A battlefield. Ground burning.}''

'''Buck''': Me either.

'''Dutch''': He might be a little shook up. Can't we get someone else? What about [[Devesh Bhasin|Bhasin]]?

''{Dutch's thoughts: Walking to another ODST, presumably Bhasin}''

'''Buck''': Bhasin? You haven't heard. An [[Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle|HEV]] drop over [[Sigma Octanus IV|Sigma]]. Chute panels got compromised during entry burn - he couldn't slow down.

''{Dutch's thoughts: ODST funeral}''

'''Dutch''': Yeah, hell - a rookie - Why not? Why not?

{Dutch's thoughts: Numerous body bags on the ground}

''{Classified clip}''

'''Buck''': We're headed towards [[Earth]].

'''Dutch''': Earth. Okay... Now I know why ONI's involved.

'''Buck''': Last time you were there?

'''Dutch''': A long time ago. Weekend pass. The last thing I did before I applied for ODST.

'''Buck''': Do you understand what's at stake?

'''Dutch''': Hm. This is about more than some Covenant ship, isn't it?

''{Classified clip end}''

'''Buck''': You spent some time at university, right?

'''Dutch''': A little. I was two years in when I got drafted. Pulled shifts on rigs to pay tuition.

''{Dutch's thoughts: Candles in the dark}''

'''Buck''': You studied a little philosophy, [[religion]]?

'''Dutch''': Actually, yes. Yeah. Sort of why I went.

'''Buck''': How's that?

''{Dutch's thoughts: Shadowy figures of Marines advancing, against a bright background. Fires everywhere.}''

'''Dutch''': I don't know - I guess at the time I had a lot of questions.

'''Buck''': You ever get into end of the world stuff?

''{Dutch's thoughts: Brief flash of Reach being glassed}

'''Dutch''': Yeah, sure.

''{Dutch's thoughts: Running to a wounded ODST.}''

'''Buck''': And?

'''Dutch''': Everybody's got a different take on what's it about. It kinda depends on who you're asking.

'''Buck''': I'm asking you.

''{Dutch's thoughts: Reach being glassed}''

'''Dutch''': It's inevitable. Nobody can save the world, Buck. 

'''Buck''': Good to see you, Dutch.

''{Dutch leaves the room}''
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