“Well, First Sergeant, it was like this. We had the thing, but it really wasn’t working right. I mean, the blades were all backwards. There were two up and one down. So I thought that I would…I mean it needed sort of a re-engineering, in a way…So I…Well, it was more of a manufacturing defect.” He paused. “And the metal hanger was insulated. How was I supposed to know it would short out the outlet? And the whole trailer to boot? There was rubber insulation on it.”

The First Sergeant looked at him with a blank stare. Where to start?

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