John had come after reading the message on the omnicomm. Not so much to participate, but to see what this crew actually had in the way of trained soldiers. Surveying the scene Kusanagi had laid out he recognized the Soviet military hardware. He'd grown up around the stuff, and it hadn't looked much better then. Still bases like this run down as they were had provided very well for the Resistance in former Soviet territories. There were simply too many of them for the machines to clear all of them out. It also helped that many of them had been abandoned, and records lost long before the days of digital information storage.

"Nice location for this. When do we start?"