"Not forever. For this specific sort of exercise. Teach them to talk better. Was an issue with my last team. Got too set, assumed too much."

And these kids? They aren't SPARTANS like he and Kurt were. The cohesion wasn't there from the word go because everything they were and had been hadn't been taking from them. SPARTAN-IIs were a team from the first word. Because who else did they have? Not their families, but these kids remembered that.

"They run normal the rest of the time. People here? They don't know their people as well. Not like I knew you and Linda."