“I Risked My Career to Rescue a Family in the Storm — I Didn’t Know Who the Father Was”

a young ensign named Rodriguez asked me, “Ma’am, how do you know which rules can bend?”

“You don’t,” I said honestly. “You learn which purpose can’t.”

She nodded like I’d given her coordinates to something essential.

The Samaritan Rule didn’t make everyone happy. There were hearings, oversight committees, senators who worried about liability and cost-benefit continue reading …