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

analyses. During one congressional session, a senator with a expensive tie asked me to justify rescue operations that couldn’t be graphed on a spreadsheet.

“We count everything we can measure,” I said calmly. “And we accept that the column marked ‘human’ is always going to break the curve.”

“Commander, the Navy is not a social work agency,” he said, continue reading …