She seemed to be. I don't know if it was her idea, but she implemented a plan to greatly reduce time to pickup casevacs. (That was part of the work I was doing, and I won't publicly mention more than that.) Saved some lives, though, my unit was very on point within our operational theater, at least after the previous, grossly lax unit left the AO. It didn't take the local and foreign fighters long to realize that we were not soft targets. 😎

She seemed to be a good CO. I think I was older than by that point. New captain VS. Just an idiot enlisted who joined years later than anyone else... If anything, we were certainly close in age. I'm salty cuz I've never gotten a ride in a helicopter. I just want to do it once. I was hoping I could ask for a ride, but I never got the chance.