Yeah, that's right.

[The codename suited Merlin, or so Eggsy thought. He was aces at being a handler, and was really good at everything he did. Intimidating as fuck, but he figured that was because of that intense expression he was always sporting.]

You was only eighteen? I joined the Marines at that age.

[He'd done pretty well, too, until he'd let other people influence the choices he was making and had dropped out to go back to his mum and sis.]

Sounds busy as fuck, but once a soldier always soldier. Kinda hard to do somethin' else after bein' trained like that.

[Kingsman hadn't been the same as being in the Marines. The training had been more focused and direct, but it had been easy to go back to it, all the routine, after having that experience already under his belt.]

Ya know somethin', bruv. I ain't told anyone on the ship what I used to do. Here I mean. Was never one for grassin' someone up, and I had a good reason to keep quiet. But people seem to know, yeah? Even though they don't have all the details.

[Eggsy shrugs.]

Guess I'm just sayin' it's nice to be open about it.