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your room and events. Any questions before I leave you?”
            “Yes, why does everyone keep calling me Jimmy?”
            Bink let out a laugh, “I’ll hook you up  with the highlight reel, just some gallows humor , but it’s happened often enough to keep the tradition going. New recruits have a bad habit of fucking up is all.” Bink sent Tarik  the video file and left him in the waiting room.
            Tarik glanced behind the counter and didn’t see anyone in the countless rows of shelving. The logistics officer must be occupied with the incoming inventory. Tarik took a seat in the corner and pulled up the video file titled “Jimmy: Best of highlights”. His eyes glazed over turning red to let anyone who came near him know he was in full immersion.
             A young human  could be seen nervously checking his equipment on a rocking drop  ship. The boy had a baby face and had to have been in his young twenties. He was skinny enough that he should have been on a bulking diet.
            “Hey Jimmy, did you make sure your Grav Boots  are set to .97 standard?” An unseen gruff voice questioned.
            Jimmy checked his wrist computer, obviously an older model. Tarik would guess this video was at least 30 years old. “Yes sir.”
            “Ok then, let's get ready to go. As soon as the rear opens I want you to get to some cover and wait for the blinder before you move to assault.”
            “Oh yeah, I’m going to kick some ass , you watch!” Jimmy was pumping himself up getting ready for a fire fight.
            As the rear door opened, Jimmy rushed straight out into a rocky landscape. Jimmy opened fire and was screaming at the top of his lungs overloading the squad channel. In his overzealous attack, Jimmy couldn’t hear the blinder countdown. The view switched from the drop  ship to the body cam of a squad mate. The squad mate was screaming at Jimmy. Telling him to get to cover but with no effect. The blinder countdown reached three seconds and the camera was obscured by rock as the squad mate took cover. A bright flash filled the screen and a deep metallic hum was the only available audio.
    As the flash subsided the squad mate looked out  from behind his cover. Jimmy was still standing in the open area stumbling around aimlessly. The assault team opened fire on the enemy. The same squad mate started screaming for Jimmy again. The squad mate started to come out from the rock ready to grab Jimmy when the enemy had regained their senses. Fire from both sides erupted and Jimmy was stuck in no man's land. A second passed and Jimmy was shot in the face by a projectile round.  As Jimmy’s body fell to the ground, the video faded.
    Now a hybrid  was on the video pacing back and forth. Jimmy had aerial insertion gear on his back and a breathing mask over his face. A buzzer sounded and the rear door started to open. The hybrid  must have mistimed his run because the jump light was still red and the door had not yet locked into place. Now running at full speed  the hybrid  stepped onto the door ready to descend to the planet below. Then the drop  ship hit turbulence and the door jolted upward. Jimmy cracked his skull on the upper door frame and fell out of the drop  ship in an uncontrolled fall.
    The next video showed a Gorrex with only blue  plumage indicating a young female. The female took a handheld explosive from its vest and threw it. The throw was weak and had no follow through. The explosive landed but a few feet in front of her. She howled as the shrapnel tore through her.
    The video continued on with countless “Jimmy” deaths. Most of the mistakes were fatal, some just incredibly embarrassing. A Dereft shot herself, a human  managed to kill his whole squad, a Flarr walked into the drive of the drop ship, this pattern continued for nearly fifty new recruits. Species, gender or age didn't seem to matter. The only