All right, all of you, listen up.

Today we are on the eve of something grand, something intense, a day of reckoning.

This is our moment.

This is the very reason we have trained you so hard.

Now is the time we will not be late for our appointment with destiny.

On my command, forward.

March.

Chapter 7.

Victoria Chamberlain left the army.

I ultimately left because it just was a good time for me age-wise to have enough time to try to do something else.

She's a podcast producer now, actually. That's how we met. But even now, in her civilian life, Victoria still wears some of her military clothes, only certain ones.

And they're called silkies.

Silkeys are these lightweight boxer shorts who can wear as underwear.

I know everybody wears those.

As much as soldiers and veterans, including Victoria, don't like to wear army clothes or army-looking

clothes out in the world.

Victoria says that she and a lot of veterans do wear their silkies because, one, they're really

comfy, and two, they're subtle.

Civilians might not even recognize them as military.

Same goes for this thermal that Victoria was allowed to keep.

It looks exactly like waffle tops she's seen at REI.

I had to do a double take because I thought it was the legit tan waffle top that I was issued.

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