Claire Bennett, 45, is a United States Army colonel who has served for twenty-three years. For years, she deliberately allowed her family to believe that she worked in ordinary Army administration. Because of that, her twenty-two-year-old nephew, Mason Cole, had no idea that she was actually the deputy commander of Fort Redstone.
PART 2 “Hands off him,” I said. The soldiers released Mason immediately, but he looked almost disappointed. For the first time that afternoon, he understood that the people around him were not protecting him from me. They were protecting him from making the situation worse. Command Sergeant Major Rourke lowered his salute only after I … Read more