Admiral Adama walks into his office and finds his in-box mostly full. Three of the documents were more viper maintenance reports about computer failures. "It seems that these new systems have been testing our electrical systems". Two were trade fleet contact reports but one was from the president's office.
----------------------****Presidential Approval status ****------------------------------
____________________________________________________________________ To Admiral Adama
I have read the Gemenon's proposal for undergoing mining projects under our own financial and military guidance. Considering the possible threat, it would be costly to operate and defend a productive mining effort. The trade fleet is hardly prepared to support the transportation of mined goods and man-power is in short supply in most of our operations. But I find that the matter is we must grow to ensure our success and these positions wont be filled unless we open them. Despite this seemingly imposable task I approve any Colonially operated mining efforts. Naturally this means we must launch a campaign to recruit more personnel in all positions, mostly trade transports and viper pilots.
Admiral, I feel with multiple projects our forces may be stretched thin. To cover the down time of our current pilots I feel we must increase the max of viper pilots to 10. This way we may be able to overlap shifts and give more coverage to our civilian fleet...
We must make a strong recruiting effort to expand our abilities and fill all positions.