He's actually been left behind in Mendez's hands. Somehow he is worried that he will have to do laps.

"Better than Ambrose," he growls out. "Besides, followed Green Leader since day one. You remember."

Back in the day they had been certain Mendez remembered literally everything. Given the look Matt wondered if it might just be true. That appraisal spoke of memory, and that was after the man had apparently had a few hundred more recruits he had dealt with since. If Gamma's size was an indication of previous units, perhaps over a thousand other recruits. But still the man remembered him. Good to know.

In a way the man was the nearest thing Matt had experienced to a father. Not that either Halsey or Mendez had been seen as parents, or would have been good ones. Still, they were the first and most important authority figures in the life of Matt, who had started as one of the smaller recruits, though a determined one. Just seeing the man made him feel young again. And a bit ashamed of the last time he had seen the man.

"Sorry about the dent," he grumbled despite the pain in his voice. He hadn't been happy to. E sent away from the program. "Was stupid."

And now... how was he supposed to handle this man?