[The one thing he's really, truly angry with the Admiral about - which he mostly just doesn't let himself consider - is that being kicked home with no warning meant he abandoned Shelton. Even if Dillon is pretty sure he wasn't properly dead, and never should have been an inmate at all - he deserved the chance to heal, deserved not to be jerked around by it and ultimately sent back to war with nothing to show for his time. But there's nothing he can do about that, and being angry isn't useful, so - mostly he puts it aside.]
I don't want this to be a game of, like, guess-the-admiral's-reasons. That's probably not a useful rabbit hole. But I think it's worth considering, that when you first came here, you had. Risk factors, and things to offer. And if you ended up - in over your head, and made some bad choices - you can be the same person, I mean. All of those things can still be true.
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[The one thing he's really, truly angry with the Admiral about - which he mostly just doesn't let himself consider - is that being kicked home with no warning meant he abandoned Shelton. Even if Dillon is pretty sure he wasn't properly dead, and never should have been an inmate at all - he deserved the chance to heal, deserved not to be jerked around by it and ultimately sent back to war with nothing to show for his time. But there's nothing he can do about that, and being angry isn't useful, so - mostly he puts it aside.]
I don't want this to be a game of, like, guess-the-admiral's-reasons. That's probably not a useful rabbit hole. But I think it's worth considering, that when you first came here, you had. Risk factors, and things to offer. And if you ended up - in over your head, and made some bad choices - you can be the same person, I mean. All of those things can still be true.