His body relaxed a tad after the order of at ease was issued; yet as John listened intently to what O'Neill shared, that confused expression never really faded. "I've heard of the Air Force before, Colonel. They got folded into UAC about two decades ago, as did most other branches of the military after the corporations took control." The government had been on the brink of total collapse and the corporations stepped in to keep the country up and running. Had it not been for the discovery of the ark, and the strides in tech development, the country would have been torn apart a decade or so before Grimm had even been born.
So to find himself actually face to face with a Colonel from a long gone military organization...it was certainly strange. Though not nearly as strange as some of the other things he had come across within the last two days. "I've never heard it called the stargate program, but it sounds a bit like you're talking about the ARK project. Big mercury liquid like orb that serves as a wormhole portal to Mars?"
A slight, but genuine, smile tugged ever so slightly at the corner of Reaper's lips when the older man chimed in again. Even in his time the Wizard of Oz quote wasn't lost on Grimm at all. "If you are Dorothy, does that make me the Tin Man or Toto, Colonel?"