After the initial introduction by Gen. Hawk, the group was issued into a waiting room that felt akin to someone copy/pasting the design of a lounge area one might find at an airport USO. There was a television in the back that had the 24-hour news station on, but the volume was down all the way and the closed caption danced across the bottom of the screen. Pastries and fruit were on a back kitchenet counter along with a coffee pod machine and full spindle of various flavor options. A few magazines sat in a back rack. The titles ranged from Outdoorsman, Time, People Magazine, and Sports Illustrated. They were all several months old. A number of clocks were on the back wall showing current local US times from Washington D.C to San Diego and across the globe including London, Tokyo, Seoul, and Munich.
There had been about twenty people in the introduction spiel so it was odd as they found themselves with only a few of you currently in the room. The most likely scenario suggested that they were already separating them into smaller groups for running the obstacle course. For the time being, it seemed that taking a moment to know who they were working with could prove helpful.