Chapter 6 - What Was on the Drive
The encrypted drive contained three categories of evidence.
The first was target telemetry.
Original qualification results showed dozens of failures that had been changed to passing scores.
Some recruits knew they had been given unofficial retests.
Most did not know their records had been altered.
The second was ammunition inventory.
Pike had created false expenditure logs and approved disposal manifests carrying live rounds off the installation.
Payments from the private training facility were routed through a consulting company registered to his brother-in-law.
The third was worse.
Internal voice recordings documented Pike threatening instructors who questioned the numbers.
One range officer said the missing ammunition had to be reported.
Pike answered:
“You report what I approve, or your career ends here.”
The officer transferred three days later.
Another recording captured Pike ordering a medic to describe a training injury as an off-duty accident so the range would not trigger a safety review.
Sarah had suspected theft.
The drive proved conspiracy, retaliation, falsified records, and deliberate concealment of safety failures.
Pike attempted to claim Sarah planted the evidence.
Security footage showed him placing the drive beneath the box lid that morning.
Miller and five recruits witnessed him holding Sarah at gunpoint.
Their statements matched.
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The system Pike built depended on juniors assuming nobody would believe them over a commander.
That calculation failed when every witness spoke before he could separate them.
