My Father Called Me A Zero In Front Of Officers Until The Colonel Asked For My Call Sign

of overheated equipment. The tactical operations center was a temporary structure reinforced with sandbags, cooling fans screaming through server racks, a bank of high-definition monitors showing green drone feeds of a village three miles out.

I wore Multicam fatigues with a CheyTac M200 Intervention in front of me, a piece of machinery chambered to continue reading …