[color=#CCCCCC]I'm Lieutenant Jane Hartman. 'reckon you already gathered that much. It's not much of a name, but it's all my folk have had for a hell of a long time. I fly with the Liberty Navy. Again, you probably figured that out already. Before that, I was a Marine. A Private, nothing special. Just another grunt with a gun, sworn to fight and die to defend folk back home. People like you.

You want to know something? When we swore that oath, we didn't swear it to the President. We didn't swear it to some General or Fleet Admiral. We swore an oath to defend the Republic of Liberty.

And I was damn proud of it. I still am.

I wasn't the only one to feel that way either. Guess what; I'm still not. My grandfather was a Marine too. same deal with his father before him, and his mother. Far back as I know of, there's been a Hartman in uniform, somewhere in Liberty. And every last one of them did their duty to this here house. Sometimes, they made bad calls, sometimes we've called it right and got to live another few years. Either way, we did what we could with what we had.

Your problem, is that you're looking at the Navy as an organisation. Thing is, an organisation is made up of people. In the Navy, that's a hell of a lot of people. A hell of a lot of opportunities for good things to happen. A lot for bad, too. You seem to think it's all going that way. David Hale's a good man. Hate to say it about the brass, but I'll be damned if it ain't true. Even if he wasn't, even if he was the devil incarnate, he's still got limits. Rules and regulations, same as everyone that wears the uniform. Much as you might think the Fleet Admiral's going to march in and take over the Government, he simply doesn't have that power. If he tried, every man and woman in service swore the same oath to the Republic I did.

Hell, I don't think he'd get past his own High Command. I've flown with them. Admirals out on the frontlines, fighting along with us grunts. Used to think that they were crazy.

Guess some folk just ain't content to hang back in the shadows.

So, you can hang back and insult us all you like. Safe and secure with that location scrambler you've got there. Call the Navy incompetent, call us corrupt, whatever you like. It'd be your right. But don't you dare imply that we're against the people of Liberty. Accuse us all you like.

But you're wrong.