Two Marines reporting in

Posted on Sun Apr 27th, 2025 @ 5:00am by 1st Lieutenant Maria Zamorano & 1st Lieutenant Mazal Falk & Major Cameron Bourne

1,029 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Broken Mirror
Location: Marine Country

Mazal walked alongside Maria both having confident strides. "Did you ever think that we'd be serving on another ship together? It's going to be different."

Maria gave a soft chuckle, "Well, I am looking forward to how things go. You and I same rank? I like it. You weren't bad being in command on the Tomcat, from my own observations though, you seem a lot happier being back to first lieutenant status." giving a friendly teasing nudge with her shoulder to Mazal.

Mazal laughed, "Thank you, and yes I am, now lets see how the marines are on this ship."

The two women stopped just outside of the Marine CO's office, Mazal reaching out and hit the chime. "Well here goes"

Standing to one side of the parade grounds, Cam was watching some of his marines during their daily exersizes when he notices two marines standing in front of the Marine CO's office. Making his way over towards them, he called out, "Hey, you two. What are you doing?"

Mazal and Maria turned to look towards the Marine calling out to them

"We are reporting in sir" Mazal responded.

Walking over to them, Cam gave them a quick look over, "the boss is currently out, so I guess you'll have to report in to me. Got your orders on you?" Cam asked, holding his hand out.

Both Mazal and Maria hand over their PADDS to Cam. "Here you go sir, our transfer orders," Maria giving a bit of a smile.

Mazal was quiet as she observed Cameron, taking his measure.

Quickly looking over the transfer orders, Cam was fascinated by the highlights. Mazal was a Marine CO, and her list of martial feats were impressive. Her start as a Recon Marine definatly caught his attention.

Maria on the other hand was more of a weapons specialist, trained in several forms of armed combat with various weapons. Both marines had crossed paths before on a previous assignment where Maria served under Mazal. hmm, This could be fun he thought to himself

Handing back their transfer orders, Cam gave them each a slight smile, "good to know I won't have to whip you two into shape. now, for your assignments. Lieutenant Zamorano, you're assigned to Charlie platoon, Lieutenant Falk, you're going to be assigned to Bravo Platoon, report in to your platoon leads after you're squared away. any questions?"

Mazal broke her silence "If you have time to answer questions then I assuredly do have them." she looked out towards where the other marines were going through their work out routines. "I would like to know a little bit about this ship. How well do the StarFleet personnel work with marines? Is there a constant enmity between StarFleet and Marines? How good is the communication between the CO of this ship and you?" Turning her gaze back to Cam, "And does StarFleet personnel and Marines interact one with another or it is more of the normal division where marine and StarFleet just stick to their own areas?"

Maria glanced over towards Mazal, her eyes going a little bit wide, Mazal sure can be rather direct in her questioning.

"While we're on the ship, we coordinate with Security and act as a supplemental force at their disposal. However, everything off of this ship is our responsibility. Away missions and boarding actions are out wheelhouse and we're the ones in charge." Cam explained, looking between the two of them. "I find this division of responsibilities helps keep our two departments from killing each other over some Lieutenant's Ego"

Mazal nodded, "that works just fine, it was that way on the ship we had left."

Maria spoke up, "I do want to know is, do we have permission to go into the ten forward area, or are we going to be directed to another place. I'd like to get to know the other crew on this ship. Not just Marines."

Cam shook his head, "no, there are no such limitations, feel free to mingle with whoever you want to. While the Marines do tend to keep to the marine deck, Deck 14, you're free to go wherever you want to your clearance allowing that is"

Mazal thought over what Cam said, "Alright, I am glad that we're able to go into other places. Security, do they have any problems with a marine maybe taking a look around and maybe partnering up on rounds? Or is that a taboo subject?"

"I don't foresee any issues with that, though I would recommend you go have a talk with the security chief before you start patrolling the ship on your own. Deck 14 is entirely under Marine jurisdiction, so feel free to patrol there, but beyond that, you should coordinate with security"

"I don't intend on making waves, just like I said, just seeing how things work on this ship. I take it you've got a good group of marines here. Also how long have you served on the ship, sir?" The thing about Mazal was that she was detail oriented not wanting to step on toes that sort of thing.

"I've served on this ship for a few years now, took a break recently and returned. As for the Marines, they're a good bunch, well trained and ready for anything. How about you two get squared away and get familiar with Deck 14"

"Aww, trying to chase us away already?" Maria piped up with a rather sunny smile. "I don't think its going to take me too long to get myself situated. Then I'll go report into Staff Sergeant Bosely."

Mazal looked Cameron up and down bit more thoroughly. He was good looking but she wasn't going to do any flirting. Not when reporting in. That was just not a thing to do. When she is out of uniform and in civvies that is a different story. Right now though she's proceeding with a great deal of caution.

Cam shook his head with a sigh, "go on, dismissed. I'll check in on you two later"

END:

Captain Cameron Bourne
Marine Corp XO / Exhausted babysitter
USS Calypso

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1st Lieutenant Maria Zamorano
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1st Lieutenant Mazal Falk
Marines
USS Calypso

 

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