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Connie could only rank the major’s smile as wicked.
They were headed over to Grimm Hall so it could only be…
“You remember Assessment Week?”
“s**t, yes.” Connie responded before she caught herself. “Ma’am.”
“How do you feel about being on the other end of the stick?”
Connie reconsidered her initial reaction. First there was Packet Review where the complete Army records of every applicant to SOAR were checked and cross-checked until nothing remained hidden, not a bad report by a drill instructor, not a mission screwup, not a poor mark in fourth-grade multiplication tables. Packet Review trimmed half or more out of every applicant class to SOAR before the testing even began.
Then Assessment Week. Seven days of hell that often slashed the class by half again—at a minimum, usually a
