"Move rookies, fill those damn trucks with 72mm ammunition"
"Be careful rookie, if you drop those warheads you'll blow us all to pieces"
"Damn, who was in charge of maintaining the armored vehicles? there is one with a flat tire"
"Everyone to your defense posts, any deserter will be treated in the most brutal way possible"
The orders kept coming, with soldiers running desperately trying to carry these out, barely maintaining any degree of order within the headquarters, quite an achievement considering that almost half of the commanding officers were missing.
Desmond on his own had already left that chaos behind, now heading to rejoin his squad. As a lieutenant in the Esper section, Desmond's responsibilities were a bit different, especially since he did not have an assignment that fits with the standard chain of command.