The Clone Sedition by Steven L. Kent

Author:Steven L. Kent [Kent, Steven L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Military, sf
ISBN: 0425258181
Google: VtYawbc65vAC
Amazon: B008EXNOUS
Publisher: Ace
Published: 2012-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

THIRTY-ONE

NAME: CALL, MATTHEW C

RANK: FIRST LIEUTENANT

SERIAL NUMBER: CM768-74-951

AGE: 27 RAISED IN ORPHANAGE #351

CLASSIFICATION: CLONE (Standard Make)

STATUS: KILLED IN ACTION Death by propafenone poisoning.

Call’s personnel file had hundreds of bits of information, but those first six fields said it all. He was a clone, he’d risen to lieutenant, and he died from a death reflex. Watson ignored the photos, the metals, the requisite blood type, hair color, skin color, and eye color. Once you classified Call as a clone, the physical description became irrelevant.

Watson skipped the findings from the autopsy and read ahead in the file.

Like every sailor, soldier, and Marine in the Enlisted Man’s Military, Call had seen action. He’d fought aliens on St. Augustine. He’d participated in the evacuations of St. Augustine and Gobi. When the Enlisted Man’s Empire invaded Earth, Call had taken part in the first wave of the invasion.

Like most clone servicemen, Call had a clean record. He’d never been arrested.

“Looks like you were a model citizen,” Watson observed.

Before joining Tarawa, the recently reinstated Second Regiment of the Second Division, Call had been stationed at the Mountain Warfare Training Facility, a base located on the West Coast of the former United States. His Military Occupational Specialty was infantry.

On January 9, 2519, Lt. Call was attacked by three civilian men while on leave in Los Angeles. He killed one of the men, the other two escaped. The bodies of men fitting their descriptions were later found dead in an apartment. They had committed suicide.

Both the local and military police investigated the crime. Both determined that Call’s actions were in self-defense.

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