Well, now I know about the rumor. Sorry, I guess? [He doesn't understand why it's a huge deal, though. Sure, if he was in this guy's squad he might give him shit, but...]

Not when they start telling me their uncle was commanding a force there. [He could lie, sure. He was pretty good at that. But he wasn't good enough to recover from "misremembering" the name of somebody's famous relative.]