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Life at Boot Camp

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In one of the many vast fields of the Netherlands, Tiger, a girl dressed in green army fatigues, stood at attention, waiting for her commanding officer to finish telling them what they were going to do for the morning exercise drills. Sometimes, she wished she wasn’t there but she was always glad when she remembered that they didn’t know that she was a girl and that has saved her a lot of pain. This was a boot cam that was only guys and had never had a girl member before she signed up.
The morning exercise drill would be that they had to run the obstacle course in less then five minutes. If they didn’t do it the first time they had to do fifty push-ups then run the obstacle course again and they had to keep this process up until they ran it in less than five minutes, which was quite difficult to do because the course consisted of fifteen feet of monster truck tires to run through, a fifty foot wall to climb over with no hand or foot holds, a rope maze which you had to climb through that covered another hundred twenty feet, and an eight foot by five foot pit that was waist deep in thick gooey mud and you had to run this all at four thirty in the morning.
Tiger got through the obstacle course in four minutes and fifty-five seconds, so she had to go to class right after she got a quick drink from the hose that was running and many of the guys were in front and behind her waiting to get their drinks so they wouldn’t be late for class. Tiger decided to skip the drink and go get her books so she would be early to class for once.
When she walked into the room she took a seat toward the front of the room and just as she sat down the bell rang and many of the guys came running into the room so that they wouldn’t be late. After the teacher made sure everyone was there, he announced that they would continue on with the subject that they had been talking about the day before. The subject was one that made Tiger’s blood boil. The guys were making slams against her without knowing it and would laugh at the crude comments they would make about women not being able to take as much pain as men. ‘Man, are they ever wrong!’ she thought.
Later on in class the guys started talking about how they felt that women were just on this planet to have sex and obey their every command. This almost made Tiger angry enough to expose her secret, but she knew better than that by how badly they dogged on women. They could probably do some serious harm to her if they found out she really was a woman. It was obvious that either they had never met a woman that did the same things she did or they never met a woman they had any interest in.
Their commanding officer came in at that time and told them they had to go line up because the colonel was there to inspect the troops. He wanted them to look their sharpest. If the colonel wished to talk to one of them in private and was impressed, that person and the commanding officer might be cut some slack. The colonel wished to speak to Tiger to see what it was like being with the company she was assigned to be training with.
Tiger walked with her head straight up looking straight forward, but the look in her eyes showed her true feelings. She felt as though someone was twisting her stomach into knots, as she half heartily marcher after the colonel. The colonel had wished to see her to see if she could explain why she was in her company when she had no criminal record like the rest of the guys in her company did. He was also wondering why when he went to look up her record and types her name in her name the computer registered that there was no such person in the entire world. She explained that Tiger was not her real name but simply a nickname to hide the fact that she was a girl in an all guy boot camp. He asked her if her commanding officer knew that she was a girl. She told him that she had not told him and that she didn’t wish to tell him until right before she was to graduate from that boot camp for the year because she didn’t need him torturing her over it.
He told her he understood, because he had gone through boot camp when black men were treated terribly, and he did not think she deserved to be treated the same way he had been. And after he told her his story the told her he would not tell her commanding officer. He would let her tell him when she was ready. As Tiger and the colonel walked out of the office used for the colonel while he was there, all the guys that had hung around to see what it was that they had talked about, sheered for her while not even knowing why. Then the colonel told them they should return to their proper places, where they belonged at this time of day. So they all went back to class, with Tiger dreading what was to come next in their lessons.
Later on that day they were switched from being in one large room, where they all slept together into smaller rooms where they had to share with one other person, Justin, the guy that Tiger was assigned to room with, made his dislike toward the room assignment verbally clear to everyone. As they were putting their stuff together the way they wanted it, and cleaning up the small dorm size room with a bathroom off it that they had to share with their neighbors. Justin, trying to appear intelligent, asked Tiger, “Where did you come from? I haven’t seen you at any of the other training facilities until this year.”
Tiger’s reply was a simple one, “I’m from the United States from a state called Indiana.”
“So that’s why when we study US History you know so much about it along with so many of the other countries that we study. Right?”
“Yeah, I guess you could say that. Though back home they didn’t put as much energy in to it as they do here.”
“So why are you here? Were you sent here because you committed such a serious crime that they wanted you straightened out outside of the US? Or did you for some strange reason choose to come here?” Under his breath he muttered, “Though I don’t know why anyone would do something crazy like that.”
Tiger heard his last comment, as all women do, and thought her answer through thoroughly before giving it. She replied with this to say, “No, I did not commit a serious crime for my police record is spotless and no, I did not chose to come here my parents thought it would be a good experience for me and it would also help my marching skills.”
“Marching skills for what?”
“Marching band. Back home I’m in my high school marching band.”
“Ok, that makes some sense, I guess. I know this is going to make me sound stupid but what is a marching band?”
“First, asking that question doesn’t make you sound stupid it just shows that you want to learn more. Second, a marching band is a group of people, usually students, that play band instruments and march sets in order to make formations to the music which they are performing.”
“Cool! I never knew that before.”
“You learn something new everyday.” They both cracked up at that comment. Tiger became friends with her roommate through their nightly discussions. She even got a chance to share her faith with him. He had never heard about being a Christian in the way he heard it from her and had never seen a better example in his life.
As the last day in the classroom comes to a close the guys are making fun of women once again. This made Tiger so mad….she thought “if only they knew, they wouldn’t be saying those things anymore. What better time to tell them then now.” John asked Tiger her opinion on the subject saying she had been quite about the subject all the time. Tiger replied, “I think women can do the same things men can; they can also take more pain then men can.”
“What are you a sissy or something? To think that you would either have to be a sissy or a woman,” taunted John. Fallowed by sneers and jeers from the other guys.
“As a matter of fact I am a woman, and I’ve put up with everything you guys have and more. So don’t try and tell me that women are the weaker sex.”
By the time it was time for Tiger to return home her roommate had accepted Christ as his personal Lord and Savior, her commanding officer and the rest of the guys in her company knew she was a girl and respected her for it. Their view of women changed drastically when they found she was one because she had been one of the best of them there.
A story I cam up with in high school and thought oyu guys might like it.
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:clap: Awesome job! :dance: Extra points for adding the parts about marching band in there! :XD: