When Captain Olivetti, last of the officers to give his private debrief, returned to the group outside the Tactical Operations Center, the talk had gotten around to catching up on careers. Tom Rocquette had served or schooled with most of the battalion’s officers and as yet he’d had little time to renew acquaintances. He hadn’t been at Fort Schwartzkopf for more than ten hours—and he’d slept six of those—before planning for the exercise had begun. That had been three days ago. He’d only received his promotion four days ago. It had come with his assignment and immediate transfer orders.