Chapter 63: Chapter 62

Sometimes being fleet deputy meant you had to take your bad hand and roll with it. Thus Virginia was sailing out of Norfolk with Ford as the carrier conducted training exercises. Her first in over a year. With them were the destroyers Bainbridge and Porter served as the main escorts. Despite the carrier’s track record, it wasn’t her she was worried about. With Arleigh sent off to Spain and Bonhomme dead, the west coast needed another San Diego based corpsman. Virginia had a candidate in mind but she was wary to let her off the leash. Zumwalt was the first US lab bred destroyer, designed to be superior to any natural born ship and she had a tendency to rub that fact in everyone’s faces. Her sisters were even worse. It was a hard call and one that Virginia when faced with, fell back on old habits.