The General circled around our chairs stopping briefly behind mine. I expected a pat on the back but got nothing. The General then sat on the front of his desk looking at us. He began to discuss the Moonbase Run mission. At first I was giddy with excitement of the praise that was to come. But, praise was nowhere to be found. The General went over one mistake after another and then began to ride me about why I had gone on the suicide run at the end. He preached about how I had thrown away the lives of my crewmates and lost a valuable ship in the process. His words were that Team A33 was fully capable of exiting the scenario without being harmed... they had been doing it all day. General Buck then said that he wanted to congratulate us on winning a previously un-won scenario, but he could not because we were dead. And, despite his better judgment we were being moved up in schedule to level-nine. Level nine would put us only one month from activation as fully flight qualified.
