Question The Grunts/JROTC

Remember, 'most' students don't do sims or combat teams until their Sophomore year. This is when Team Tactics and the Sim indoc / training happens. There's actually a somewhat important bit of logic to this... after all, most freshmen have had their powers for under a year and don't even know what they can do yet... let alone what they can do in relation to combat or acting within the context of a scenario. No matter what her ability, Whisper only has 1 quarter worth of classes at the time of Odds and Ends. Any expectation that she'd even be SAFE in a sim is ridiculous. The idea that she'd be a viable part of a military team like the Grunts? That's like walking up to someone who rated 'marksman' in their boot camp firearms tests and taking them directly out of boot camp graduation and sending them on a SEALs mission.

The Grunts original concept was that they are the JROTC cadets who are being sponsored by the military for military service upon leaving the school. They aren't the whole of the JROTC crowd. These are the kids whom have decided that when they get out of school, they're trading the books for a uniform. So they tend to push a lot harder as a group, if not as individuals, than most other children in whateley.

From the sounds of it, JG has lots of reading to catch up on... likely 'years' of reading. Like... back to midway through Diane's era of dominating the release cycle. So... you know... 3 or 4 million words worth of stories.