“Got an opening here for you anytime you want,” Casper and Two-ton had shaken her hand and Mick’s. “That was some damn fine work,” they told Major Napier and strode off as if she and Mick had done no more than win a quick game of racquetball.
Patty didn’t really remember much else about her triumphant return to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Partly because it was just the end of another training exercise to the Two-Twelve, so no one made any big deal of it.
She also didn’t remember it because she couldn’t stop falling asleep. She’d given everything she had, and then more, on the mountain as they’d wrestled the toboggans down off the snowy peak. She’d refused to become another victim that would burden her team on the final descent. By the time they were out of the danger zone she knew f
