[Her agenda was theirs? He somehow doubted it. Not that she wasn't telling the truth, but if she knew the full extent of what was going on, he was sure Marco would have told him about it. Marco better have told him about it. Well no use being annoyed over it now.

Might as well make the most of the evening]

Aye, well it's not much fun. I thought the Marines were a boring lot. [these guys made them seem lively. It helped that he knew, more or less, who he was looking at back home and who was connected to who. Here it was all so much of a crap shoot]

Though I take it poking Marines aren't your captain's style. [the boy didn't look as if he'd poke an ant nest, frankly]