He bristles at that, no matter how gentle the rebuke. He hadn't been trying to make them into a fighting force, is the real answer. But maybe that's only part of it. "Yeah, it has been," he says sharply. "You had a squad before Freelancer, you were a soldier. I wasn't for very long before I got picked up by the Project." He was a Freelancer and he's been a merc for longer than he ever was a soldier.