“He knows I deploy with joint special operations units,” I said.

“He’s eleven and he simplified the term.”

“An eleven-year-old can tell a sailor from a SEAL if someone bothers to teach him,” Wyler said.

He picked up his metal clipboard and drew a sharp red mark next to Matty’s name on the speaker roster.

“I’ll be running the microphone during the career panel tomorrow morning,” Wyler added, his voice clipped and low.

“I expect every representative on this stage to use exact official Navy designators with no embellishment.”