The General Cut Her Hair As Punishment—Then Uncovered The Secret That Silenced The Entire Base

Описание: When General Harrison Kellerman ordered Lieutenant Cassandra "Cass" Reeves to report to his office at 0600 hours, she knew her carefully maintained cover was about to be tested in ways she never anticipated. What she didn't expect was for him to grab a pair of military-issue scissors and hack off her regulation-length auburn hair as punishment for what he called "insubordination and conduct unbecoming." But as those severed locks fell to the polished floor of his office, neither of them realized that this single act of petty cruelty would uncover a secret so explosive it would silence the entire Whitmore Air Force Base within 48 hours.
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The morning air at Whitmore carried the sharp bite of Colorado winter, cutting through the pre-dawn darkness like a blade. The base sprawled across thirty thousand acres of high desert, its runways stretching toward the Front Range mountains that loomed like sleeping giants against the star-punctured sky. F-22 Raptors sat in neat rows on the tarmac, their angular surfaces gleaming under the sodium lights, while transport aircraft and tankers filled the auxiliary fields. This was home to the 347th Tactical Fighter Wing, one of the Air Force's premier combat units, and every person on base knew they were part of something important.
Lieutenant Cassandra Reeves walked across the main parade ground with the measured pace of someone who had learned to make herself invisible. At twenty-eight, she was unremarkable by design—average height, average build, her auburn hair pulled back in the standard military bun that revealed nothing of the precision with which she arranged it each morning. Her uniform was the standard-issue Airman Battle Uniform in the familiar tiger-stripe digital camouflage, clean and pressed but showing the wear patterns of someone who actually worked for a living rather than merely appearing at ceremonial functions.