CHAPTER 11
There were no dressing downs. No reprimands. No being screamed at till it looked as though the officer’s head would pop. Instead, they led the entire company back to base and sealed us into our platoon areas. We hadn’t seen Tazz since they led her off the field. They had taken Richie, too, who was inconsolable. We all lay on our bunks or gathered into groups and discussed the morning’s events in detail.
The majority consensus was that Tazz hadn’t done anything wrong. She executed a plan that was risky but hadn’t been explicitly forbidden. All of our training was based around following orders, thinking outside the box, and protecting Terra. It was an accident, pure and simple.
A vocal minority took the opposing view. They claimed Tazz had been reckless and put the lives of tho
