30 “You weren’t kidding!” “I think this is where I say, I told you so!” Drake only had to watch Lizzy’s face to know she was in heaven. She dragged him down into a kiss that confirmed the assessment. They were at JBLM AWE. The Joint Base Lewis-McChord Airshow and Warrior’s Expo was one of the finest military airshows he’d ever been to. No vendors hounding his heels to talk about the last strategic and tactical innovations, or Block III upgrades to existing aircraft, or “special” projects that just needed a few billion dollars in funding to make them happen. AWE was about the men, women, and machines that made the military tick. A hundred thousand civilians and servicepeople would come through here in the next two days, and, for today at least, it was all he and Lizzy were going to be