She tucked a strand of dark hair behind her ear as soon as I came through the door.

“Lieutenant Colonel Mitchell,” Brenda said, sliding a thick blue binder toward me.

“General Vance told me you might stop by to check the preliminary schedule.”

I opened the binder to the center tab marked Combined Exercises.

The top line read Joint Commissioning and Regional Graduate Commencement.

Below it, in dark block letters, was the list of participating schools.

My eye stopped on the second university listed.

Hudson Valley Graduate School of Business.