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Good times on the Duke basketball recruiting trail sometimes lead to agony.
“Everything has a price, Johnson.”
Those words were spoken to me when I was 19 years old, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and newly arrived at my first Air Force duty station in Okinawa, Japan.
I didn’t think much of that message at the time. But teenage Matt discovered the lesson my supervisor was driving at immediately, for my previous night of debauchery and fun led to one of the worst wake-up calls, announcing surprise weekend duty, ever recorded.