Summary

An After Action Report submitted by Donovan stresses the continued necessity of the fives and twenty-fives.

In the section “Route Clearance” Paige leaves a note in Donovan’s box inviting him to social get-togethers of the other MBA students and inviting him for a ride on her parents’ sailboat. He’d looked at a sailboat earlier that day that had been wrecked by hurricane Katrina. He thinks how different that wreck probably is from the one owned by Paige’s parents. On his way home, he sees a New Orleans funeral and compares it with the military memorial services he felt they always botched. Thinking back, he believes that empathy was what Major Leighton had missed on the day of the memorial service for Gunny Stout.

Gunny Stout had been the company’s first member to be...