I served alongside her joint explosive team in Afghanistan back in 2017.”

Valerie looked over at the visitor spaces where Wyler’s sedan sat beside the athletic fields.

“He told me he plans to question every military speaker at the microphone before the sixth-grade assembly starts.”

“Let him go ahead and try,” Vance said.

I came up the concrete steps and stopped next to the museum display table.

“The Little Creek duty office logged a second casing at Sandbridge Beach twenty minutes ago.”

“How long have you got before the beach sector closes?” Vance asked.