[Gene grins, a quick, automatic gesture that winds up being a little fleeting.]

Asiatic. [He glances quickly at Scott, knowing this time that it needs a little clarification. This isn't a race thing or something about the Japanese, it's just an expression that's become their way of speaking, and Scott won't know because he's not with them, there.] It's what we call guys who've been in the Pacific for too long and start actin' kinda weird.

[And Snaf is weird, rude, gross, mean as hell and equally spooky, but. Gene doesn't really sound anything other than fond?]

He's a good marine. I can't tell you how many times he's saved my life.

[It goes both ways, really.]