“Your Kids Can Eat at Home,” My Dad Said—So When the Waiter Returned, I Stood Up – The Archivist

and several other officers at a restaurant near the harbor. We talked about the deployment, about upcoming operations, about the junior sailors who were showing promise.

No one asked about my car or my apartment or why I wasn’t married.

They asked about tactics and leadership and whether I thought the new radar systems would perform as advertised.

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