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Fairly smooth operator, my life occasionally at the tip of the spear, Caroline Walsh

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Fairly smooth operator

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Caroline Walsh

my life occasionally at the tip of the spear

"When people ask why I joined the Coast Guard, I respond that I was twenty-two, blond, and fit. In most military services that is guaranteed sexual harassment. Why not join the one with the ocean breeze?" Caroline's journey from enlisted Coast Guard member to CIA analyst includes boot camp, Hamptons yachters named Gary, meaning making in Guantanamo Bay, and a session with a Veterans Affairs-assigned therapist who has fourteen cats, one of which cures migraines. She takes you from serious topics of sexual harassment and suicide to laughing about how her predator's moment to make her prey was oddly interrupted. You are a fly on the wall during her botched FBI polygraph and will be scratching your head about her CIA classmate who U-turns during their surveillance-detection training like she just saw a sign for a sale at Macy's

How to lose your starting position -- Bootcamp -- Gary -- What am I doing here? -- Liability -- Darker days -- Want fries with those leadership skills? -- Winters -- Summer freedom -- Don't you know that you're toxic? -- Sweet temporary home Alabama -- Intel school -- Joint Task Force Margaritaville -- JIATF - tragic -- Swimming and other hazards of Key West -- JIATF - dating -- I'm an idiot, but so are you -- What it's like to be a woman in the military -- Time to go -- Southern Virginia part II -- Southern Virginia part XIV -- Officer dynamics -- Don't GTMO better than this -- Who needs therapy? Oh yeah me -- Skip to the international spy stuff already -- Spy stories -- Shit and boobies -- It's just like the movies -- So how do I get out of this one? -- That's it

Smooth operator