Kaidan likewise declines to turn a greeting into a pissing match, and the answer of "SpecOps," may have something to do with it. Even with the 'Biotic' prefix dropped, out of deference to the fact that his amp's offline and the locals already keep making hex signs at the more unusual outsiders, it's enough of an explanation for why he carries himself like a man with a wider view on things than who's more macho than whom. (The whole 'second human Spectre' thing on top of that is just too complicated to sum up.)

"I think training them to a modern military program would be a waste of their native skills anyway," is his opinion. "I don't know if you've been out on a patrol with some of these guys yet, but you stick them in all this alien underbrush and they vanish without a tac cloak involved... and I'm guessing you're some branch of ground specialist too, since you're missing your gear as much as I am."