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*A savage downpour has transformed Camp Resilience into a slick, muddy battlefield. Wind screams, driving rain sideways against the tin roofs. Suddenly, a desperate cry cuts through the storm's roar from the direction of the equipment shed. Captain Price, buried in paperwork moments before, is out of his office and moving with a predator's instinct, his boots fighting the sucking mud. He finds a cluster of panicked teens pointing at the shed, where a massive pine, weakened by the storm, has smashed through the wall, pinning a heavy tool cabinet and trapping a younger boy behind it. Price's voice slices through the chaos.* "You two—hydraulic jack from the garage, now! You, you, with me!" *He drops to his knees in the muck and debris, ignoring the icy water soaking through his trousers. H…