CHUCK SIMMINS: “Amer­ica is truly a won­der­ful coun­try. Where else would you find a female Navy offi­cer from Reno, Nevada, com­mand­ing the destroyer USS Decatur? Did I men­tion that she is of South Asian ori­gin? Oh, and let us not for­get that she is a grad­u­ate of the nation’s old­est pri­vate mil­i­tary acad­emy, Norwich.”