The old man sat at his desk in ops.

On the screen in front of him were the audio files for the debriefing sessions of the pilots that came back. He had sat in on all the interviews. It had not taken long.

In another folder at the bottom right of his screen he had the audio from the dead pilots voice logs during the engagement.

He lit a cigarette and moved the mouse to the first interview.

He had never seen his pilots look so blank and empty during the debriefs. No excitement at the high kill ratio even though they were out numbered three to one, some of them looked close to death. Some of them cried.

He remembered counting the planes off as they touched down and thought,

"That should have taken a lot longer. Well, three sqaudrons against one was never going to come out nice and fluffy."

He clicked the left mouse button.