Chapter 5 - Camera Three Shows the General
Security preserved Freezer Camera 3 before anyone could delete it.
The footage was recorded the night before Linda’s injury.
General Miller entered the supply room with Major Collins and the
food-service manager, Dennis Shaw.
They stood beside the unstable rack.
Miller pointed toward it.
No audio existed.
But Collins removed a bright red OUT OF SERVICE tag.
Shaw hesitated.
Miller gestured again.
The tag disappeared into Collins’s pocket.
The next morning, Linda was injured.
Miller insisted the footage proved nothing except that she inspected the
room.
Sarah agreed.
“By itself.”
Then maintenance records surfaced.
A technician had ordered the rack removed from service two days before
the accident.
Miller’s office canceled the work order.
Reason:
Operational necessity.
Sarah stared at her.
“Why was a broken storage rack operationally necessary?”
Miller said the cafeteria could not afford delays during an upcoming
readiness evaluation.
There it was.
The first motive.
The base was being scored.
Miller wanted no visible safety failures.
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So the warning tag disappeared.
Then Linda got hurt.
