The radio went quiet for a full five seconds. Then the dispatcher came back on, his voice a full octave higher.
“Son, that sticker is the base access credential for the Judge Advocate General’s office. The woman you just gave a speeding ticket to… she literally wrote Article 15 of the UCMJ. She’s not confused. She’s the…”
The Part Where I Started Sweating
He cut out for a second. Static. I tapped the radio like that does anything.
“She’s the what, dispatch?”
“She’s Colonel Dorothy Thornton. Retired. JAG Corps. Forty-one years of service. She was the lead drafter on the 1983 revision of the non-judicial punishment provisions. The ones every base commander in the country still uses.”
