He nods, businesslike; makes sense to him. Finn knows now they lost enough pilots at Starkiller Base to make each of them indispensible until some more backups could come online - even if the ranks were swelling exponentially after the destruction of the Senate. There are a lot more ground troops, so he at least is on a mostly-regular schedule.

But if Poe gets called somewhere, Finn wants to follow as his backup if he can.

"I was hoping you wouldn't mind if I tagged along next time you got leave," he admits. "I don't have that many friends here yet." Poe does, of course. He's as popular as anyone would expect.