It was a cool day to start off with and I hated rain. However it was easy to see that it was going to shower hard
today, like it had been for the last two weeks.Teresa Alexandria Sanders was my name; I always hated Teresa
and could never figure out my parent's logic in calling me it. My mom always wanted a girl, my dad a boy, so
some where a long the way I was called Terry, something they could agree on.
Upon arriving at the alpha site, I was assigned the tedious duty of fixing little nick knacks around the base
that had malfunctioned. Rarely was I bothered or noticed from the start of my 6 month training period before I
could beassigned to an off world team. I had to "prove" myself as theColonel brigade leader had told me.
"Women were not as respected as men in the army," pah, a woman could kick Guauld ass just as easily as a
man, but nooo it was always about proving yourself. However I could handle any task and was on my way to
becoming a major some day, SOONER than LATER.
Base camp was infested with Tocra, Guauld and army men and women, who were stinky, underfed,
underpaid people, sure we did the best we could, but, hey! Would it kill the government to install some half
descent showers? I prided myself on speaking my mind, (which more often than not got me in trouble).
"Hey Terry, you got that ventilation heater fixed in the Colonels office, man he is riding my ass about it." Lt.
Jerry Reagan is a young and brave soldier who has seen very little of the world and even less of a battle field,
but, he prided himself on sucking up to our base camp leader under our base camp colonel, Major. Fronswa
Tami Landers, however, mostrefered to theMajor,as frogman undertheir breaths. "No J, besides fixing the
ventilation shaft, and the faulty wiring in that Tocra ship, plus the leaky showering system I haven't really had
time to get around to it" I stated, rather annoyed at being disturbed on my lunch break (which happened
regularly). "I have been so busy lately that it slipped my mind" I replied again, than out of the corner of my eye I
noticed 'Major. I am always on your case, Frogman' standing with a smirk on his face, apparently he had over
heard our conversation. "Major if your life is in so much chaos, why is it that you have time for such a
lesurlylunch. If every man in this base dropped their duties then nothing would get done." He stated
sarcastically. Man sometimes I just wanted to kick that royal smirk all the way to Anubise's ship. Unfortunately
me being onelowly Captain and he being a major my only reply would go somewhere along the lines of "Yes
sir, I will get right on it."Retreating with my soggy MRI bar I headed in the direction of the General's Office.