Military & Action · fiction
The Standard Behind the Closed Door
Colonel Grant Maddox had spent thirty-two years building a reputation around one word. Standards. He said it so often that younger instructors at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado joked that if Maddox ever retired, someone would have to engrave the word across the front gate just to keep him from coming back. At sixty-one, he still moved through a...
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