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“Lady, that book is for real snipers,” the instructor sneered. I wrote 2407 in the ledger’s eleven-year-old blank. My former instructor went pale. Hours later, the bully accused me of stealing a dead soldier’s honor—and threatened to punish the young woman I’d mentored. There was one problem with his story. That supposedly dead soldier was me—all this time.

“Lady, that book is for real snipers,” the instructor sneered. I wrote 2407 in the ledger’s eleven-year-old blank. […]

“Maybe somebody should show her where the administrative offices are.” Twenty-seven aviators laughed as Commander Kessler questioned my right to fly. Then my call sign—RUIN—appeared on the briefing screen. His coffee splashed across his boots. Fifteen minutes later, he’d crossed my name off the flight schedule and written UNQUALIFIED. I photographed his sabotage before he could erase it.

“Maybe somebody should show her where the administrative offices are.” Twenty-seven aviators laughed as Commander Kessler questioned my […]