They Demoted Me to a Desk Job to Bury a Secret. They Thought I Was Broken. They Forgot I Was a Pilot. When a SEAL Commander Ordered Me to Fly the $200M F-35 As a Joke in Front of His Whole Team, He Expected Me to Fail. He Didn't Know I Was the 'Ghost' Who Saved His Life. The hangar fell silent. It was the kind of silence that’s so loud, it buzzes in your ears. Every whisper, every shuffling foot, every clink of metal on metal had stopped. And every single eye was on me. Commander Riker pointed,