I’ve served twenty years in the United States Navy.”

“And your son told three hundred students that his mother is a Navy SEAL,” Wyler said, raising his voice just enough to reach the desk behind him.

“If there’s no Trident on your dress shirt, Master Chief, the form is wrong.

I won’t have false representations on my panel.”

“My son wrote what an eleven-year-old understands about his mom’s job,” I said.

“That form is a school activity sheet, not an official service record.”