It isn't like I joined for the title. I don't care what my rank is. But -- yeah. We aren't in active war that us State Alchemists have been called in to fight at the moment.

[He's only heard about that back then with Ishval and remembers seeing the odd soldier around with living out East in Resembool growing up. As a kid though it wasn't something he paid a huge amount of attention to exactly, growing up. Not until he was older and having to decide whether to join to access the military's research records.]