we can definitely swing that! there's enough bigger conflicts that could fit the bill since i know i didn't stick him in everything, just the larger u.s. involved ones. he's an old soul with a thousand-yard stare despite probably looking like he was too fresh to be a life-long soldier, good to his own brothers in arms, cases of going missing for a few days every single month he would've been out there - so there's a few weird things his old man could've picked up on and room for something closer than just being in the same vicinity.