8Tom Larkin was a competition shooter before our predecessor company hired him as a firearms instructor.
After the reorganization, he continued working for Caprock.
When I got hired, Tom was based at the Virginia training facility.
Seven years ago this September, I went down there for a week to meet him and the rest of the instructional staff.
Morale was at rock bottom.
I was a fifty-year-old woman. My only battlefield experience was in the Cold War.
I’d never been in armed combat. A dusting of fallout from Chernobyl didn’t earn me a Purple Heart.
Some staffers thought I was hired as window dressing.
They doubted I could set things right.
I knew I couldn’t solve Caprock’s problems alone.
I had to identify a few capable staffers who were willing to give me a hand.
One on one, fac
