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The scent of stale coffee and panic hung thick in the security office when the third perimeter breach alert blared that month. My knuckles turned white clutching yet another contradictory guard report - scribbled timestamps dancing between 2:15AM and 3:47AM for the same patrol. Paper logs felt like betrayal in physical form, each smudged entry mocking my team’s integrity. That Thursday midnight, watching Javier shrug about "maybe forgetting" checkpoint 7B again, something in me snapped. We weren

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