"Afternoon, sir, I'm LT Alyssa Armstrong, the Chief Engineer ---"
"Ohhhh.... You're the Chief Engineer?"
As sorely tempted as I was to blurt out, "Hey, 1 Star Admiral, there are female Chief Engineers out there!", I resisted. I figured I was better mannered than that.
This was a 1 Star Admiral who actually said this to me during a meet and greet. I mean, I knew he was old school. After all, he rocked the CNT Khaki uniform they stopped making when I was commissioned. And like only the ridiculously old school guys, he wore it without an undershirt so that it appeared there were a pair of gray squirrels trying to escape from his chest.
Crazy Admirals, we are not unicorns... We do exist.
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