Disclaimer: I don't own Band of Brothers, but I do love the HBO miniseries. Also, this is based purely on the miniseries, and not the lives of the actual men of Easy Company. I have nothing but admiration and respect for the men that fought so that we could live freely today.
Sadie was in shock. She had just received news from her superiors that she would be shipping out. Tomorrow. She was finally going to see some action. In fact, according to her orders, she was going to see more action than she ever wanted to. But orders were orders.
Second Lieutenant Sadie Foster of the US Army Nurse Corps had just gotten reassigned to Aldbourne, England. It was now late August 1943 and she'd been a fully trained nurse for just over two years now. Since the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Sadie had been moving back and forth between training nurses in the basic training program to treating injured men at various boot camps. She'd wanted to help troops on the front line, but was ordered to stay behind and help the soldiers by training fresh, new nurses to send over.
Until now. Now she was leaving for England to meet up with a few other well-trained nurses and join the boys of 101st Airborne. They had to be anticipating some combat, right? Being paratroopers and all. She was fairly sure that meant dropping in behind enemy lines. And she was going to be in the thick of it.
In the briefing, Sadie had been told she would be headed to Aldbourne to take a crash-course in paratrooping, where, upon successful completion, she would receive her jump wings. She and the other nurses would be scattered throughout the various companies in 101st and when the men jumped they would be joining them. The idea was that the highly trained nurses would be able to set up a solid aid station close enough to the front line that if men were badly wounded they could receive real treatment at this aid station, instead of being left to die. Even though the nurses would not have all the supplies they needed immediately, they had far more training than the common medic.
Sadie was excited to finally be able to leave all the training behind. She loved teaching, but she'd had enough. At the same time, she was nervous for the future. This was an experimental idea, so she had no idea what it would be like.
She quickly made her way back to her barracks, the place she'd called home for the last couple months, to pack her bags.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed the prologue! It may not be the most realistic, but I'm trying not to make it too farfetched. Thanks for reading!