“Claire?” Nic tossed her hat and briefcase on a chair and started untucking her shirt. “Claire?”
Nothing.
Her first month of teaching had gone as well as could be expected. Most of her students were seasoned officers from all branches of the service and other countries, with a few of what she would term “newbies.” Her classes were on the counterterrorism track with insight into how to work with ethnic factions in country.
Today though, she’d been invited to give a talk to the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at a local high school. Claire’s student teaching gig was at a high school down the valley, and Nic had been offered up so the students could interact with a female Marine officer. Claire thought it would be good for the girls in the class to see a woman in uniform, and Rod,
