True to his word, Colonel McGrady and his crew chief arrived in just twenty minutes. Miranda appreciated the punctuality. So many people said twenty minutes and meant thirty…or forty. She considered asking if that was part of being a Marine, but decided against it. She was getting better at sorting distractions from the main line of focus. Per Mike’s recommendation, she patted herself on the back for that. wasSergeant Whalen sat beside Jeremy and they began loading the profile into the conversion software. They sat before an arc of four screens. To the left were all of the zeroes and ones of the chip’s binary readout. The next screen rapidly populated with scores of graphed parameters. Neatly grouped into clusters of flight characteristics, engine, even voice curves of the four intern