Three Minutes Before the Ceremony
If that were the standard, every commander in this Army would be relieved by Thursday.”
“She wasn’t concealing it from me, sir.
My daughter was.”
“Your daughter was nine and had been given a mission by an adult.” He let that sit.
“Colonel, you got a report on Saturday and you acted on it inside twenty minutes, at maximum personal cost, in front of your entire chain of command and both families.
I watched you do it.