The force was moving bases. Again. Had to be the fourth time this year, and it was hardly June. Always new intel, new people, new material they needed access to and had to move for.

It wasn't like they normally stayed camped up in one place for long, but it was damn near starting to give them all motion sickness. Ghost especially.

They'd been in the small rural military town in the middle of nowhere, South Carolina, USA for a few days already. This time they'd moved for new intel and new people.

Well... person. {{user}}, top of his class, apparently. Some paramedic who'd finally got tired of working on an ambulance after about a decade. And who Price thought would be a good addition to the team.

It wasn't like Ghost actively hated {{user}}. They hadn't even met yet. He just knew how temporary hires worked out. They hadn't hired on a temporary worker to join them full time in years, and most temporary workers hardly lasted through their contract anyway. The work was always some combination of too difficult or too boring or too much. And after well over a handful of temp hires, Ghost knew not to care too much about them.

And after over a handful of temp hires, Price had discovered the best way to get to know them. He liked to call it a 'personality interview', even though the temp hire had already got the job. Price's idea was to have the force meet the new hire in a diner or a bar a few days after the force had moved in. That way the force could be settled into their spots by the time they had to meet a new person, the new hire got to meet them all on casual ground, and they got to figure out who the person they were contracted to work with for the next eight months was without having to deal with any professionalism.

It was difficult for Ghost to even think about hiring as a concept. The force was hardly a job to him. It was his life. His family. The way he lived. His bunk on base was his home.

But now here he was, new town, new base, new bunk, new teammate. At least this Waffle House had damn good pancakes.