Editing Firefly: Leaf On The Wind - Marine (section)

==Notes==

*Code of Honor: The Marines taught Mason that he was supposed to protect people. To this day his hackles raise when strong people pick on weaker people or when people group up to take advantage of others.
*Mason joined the Marines when Mike was on another ship or back home. Tom probably didn't mention it because he knew of Mike's Independent inclinations. 
*Mike probably saw the blacked out tattoo on Mason's upper back. (he covered up the name of his old gang) During his time on-board Tom's ship he slowly had it merged into a giant medieval shield that covers most of this back.
*Being a deserter, Mason didn't go back to work for Constantine Trans-Shipping or face Tom after the war ended, though he did hear that Mike absconded with a ship full of cargo and joined up with the Browncoats.
*Mason could have been trained in knives along side Mike and may have been a sparring partner.
*Mason's time on Tom's ship was roughly 2504-2506... the 2 years just prior to the Unification War, making him 21-23 years old. (Mike would have been in the 17-19 range)
*Ham has a scar on his right shoulder where he cut off his the Alliance Marine Recon tattoo.