Weirdly I felt like it got more LLM-y the further I got in. Then I hit the part with:

  But the thing I can’t get past is Fort Huachuca’s failure mode.
  
  Not: the freezer compressor died.
  
  Not: the power went out.
  
  Not even: the refrigeration system stopped cooling.
  
  Every freezer went into active defrost.