America's fighting women:A search for good POD's. - Page 5

SergeantHeretic · #81 April 1st, 2012, 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by hugh lupus

K I await your story ..no pressure

Wel lwhat I was thinking was this. the STORY story would take place during and after my altered Vietnam

A young woman is drafted in 1968 and serves as an infantrywoman with the 1st cav for two tours.

Whe nshe comes home she is expected to be a nice sweet girl and she cant do it, she can't even wrap her mind around being a "Good little wifey" and going to church and focussing on "Kirk Kitchen and Kids."

I am going to call it,

"When Janey comes marching home."

hugh lupus · #82 April 1st, 2012, 02:30 AM

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Originally Posted by SergeantHeretic

Wel lwhat I was thinking was this. the STORY story would take place during and after my altered Vietnam

A young woman is drafted in 1968 and serves as an infantrywoman with the 1st cav for two tours.

Whe nshe comes home she is expected to be a nice sweet girl and she cant do it, she can't even wrap her mind around being a "Good little wifey" and going to church and focussing on "Kirk Kitchen and Kids."

I am going to call it,

"When Janey comes marching home."

Good title I like it .The church going bit is not some thing I would have thought of with my background ,but if it fits by all means do so
Classic story telling involves our hero [or in this case heroine] having adventures ,overcoming adversities and living happly ever after
Dont know if youve ever read them but the 'Hornblower' novels by C.S Forester are an excellent example.
So your heroine born say 1948? makes her 20 in 1968 about the right age I would say
What was her mother doing in WW2, she was in the Ardeness maybe?
Just a thought that last, maybe make it easier to explain the time line if you can personalise it from one famillies point of view

SergeantHeretic · #83 April 1st, 2012, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by hugh lupus

Good title I like it .The church going bit is not some thing I would have thought of with my background ,but if it fits by all means do so
Classic story telling involves our hero [or in this case heroine] having adventures ,overcoming adversities and living happly ever after
Dont know if youve ever read them but the 'Hornblower' novels by C.S Forester are an excellent example.
So your heroine born say 1948? makes her 20 in 1968 about the right age I would say
What was her mother doing in WW2, she was in the Ardeness maybe?
Just a thought that last, maybe make it easier to explain the time line if you can personalise it from one famillies point of view

Say ,that's not bad, Mom was in a transport company when Bastogne was swamped by the Germans, nd so her Daughter takes thedraft notice more or less in stride and goes to report for induction more or less in stride.

I can tae her, and by extension, the reader, through the proccess of induction and she is impersonally stripped and examined by disinterested female members of the Recruiting command, then sent to BASIC at one of the training bases devoted to female recruit training, then she goes overseas and I take her through a combat tour. She signs up for a second helping because what the heck else is she going to do at this point, she feels closer to her squaddies than she does to any of the friends she had back home.

Then when "Vietnamisation" takes place, her unit rotates home and she recieves her honorable discharge.

That's whe nshe realizes that everyone expects her to be something she can never be again.

hugh lupus · #84 April 1st, 2012, 02:46 AM

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I can tae her, and by extension, the reader, through the proccess of induction and she is impersonally stripped and examined by disinterested female members of the Recruiting command, then sent to BASIC at one of the training bases devoted to female recruit training, then she goes overseas and I take her through a combat tour. She signs up for a second helping because what the heck else is she going to do at this point, she feels closer to her squaddies than she does to any of the friends she had back home.

Then when "Vietnamisation" takes place, her unit rotates home and she recieves her honorable discharge.

That's whe nshe realizes that everyone expects her to be something she can never be again.
Yep write about what you know and I imagine you know this or have a good idea
One small point why are there training bases devoted to female recruit training . I thought the idea was to have an equality of experience

SergeantHeretic · #85 April 1st, 2012, 02:48 AM

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I can tae her, and by extension, the reader, through the proccess of induction and she is impersonally stripped and examined by disinterested female members of the Recruiting command, then sent to BASIC at one of the training bases devoted to female recruit training, then she goes overseas and I take her through a combat tour. She signs up for a second helping because what the heck else is she going to do at this point, she feels closer to her squaddies than she does to any of the friends she had back home.

Then when "Vietnamisation" takes place, her unit rotates home and she recieves her honorable discharge.

That's whe nshe realizes that everyone expects her to be something she can never be again.
Yep write about what you know and I imagine you know this or have a good idea
One small point why are there training bases devoted to female recruit training . I thought the idea was to have an equality of experience

Good point, it would just be a seperate cadre of trainees on an intergrated base, thank you for joggling my elbow.

hugh lupus · #86 April 1st, 2012, 02:59 AM

k well have fun. any help you require a votre service

SergeantHeretic · #87 April 1st, 2012, 03:00 AM

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k well have fun. any help you require a votre service

Five by five, my cross the pond cousin.

hugh lupus · #88 April 1st, 2012, 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by SergeantHeretic

Five by five, my cross the pond cousin.

oh im a lot further away than that

SergeantHeretic · #89 April 1st, 2012, 03:05 AM

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oh im a lot further away than that

Well gush durn it, whar da heck are ya?

hugh lupus · #90 April 1st, 2012, 03:06 AM

look at my location google it

SergeantHeretic · #91 April 1st, 2012, 03:11 AM

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look at my location google it

Wow, that's far.

Anyway, thank you for your help on getting this thing slapped together. I only had a vauge idea of a story I wanted to try to tell, but you really helped me nail it down.