Missy Goes to West Point by P. G. Allison

Author:P. G. Allison
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-01-16T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Jul 2018

It was morning of her third day and Missy was feeling very happy. Right after this reveille formation was the daily physical training or PT. She loved doing PT, of course. First there were the various calisthenics exercises, just to warm up. She had no problem doing them all exactly right, just the way the Army wanted them done. Some of her classmates were having difficulty and the squad leaders were quick to correct them, barking out orders that only added to their difficulty. If you didn’t show perfect form, you were doomed to failure. All part of “The Game” that Missy now considered this Beast Training represented for her.

Then, after enough pushups and sit-ups and jumping jacks had been done, they’d go for a run. She’d already been put into the fastest group, or black group, due to her performance on the initial APFT, the Army Physical Fitness Test. This consisted of doing pushups for two minutes, sit-ups for two minutes and then a two mile run. Missy had done 50 pushups and 100 sit-ups, well above the requirement even for the men. Her time for the two mile run had been just over ten minutes, earning her a spot in the black group. Her scores were the highest for any female and only a few of the men had higher scores. She was right where she’d wanted to be.

Her squad leader Jamieson was quite pleased to have a woman from his squad do so well, so he wasn’t getting in her face quite as much, criticizing her the way he’d been doing all the others. There was clearly some competitiveness between squad leaders and she knew she was playing right into that. She had played on a lot of sports teams and had always worked to contribute whatever made the team do best. That’s how she viewed her squad and, by making her squad look good, her squad leader would benefit. All part of “The Game”, right?

Tracy was in the normal group, or gold group, and only one of the guys in their squad was in the slow group, or white group. Three guys were in the gold group with Tracy and two were in the grey group, or fast group. There were two guys in their squad also running in the fastest group with her. Missy thought, overall, her whole squad ought to do well enough on any physical challenge tasks. She knew there would be a lot of those in the weeks to come.

Today’s run was on a course with a lot of steep hills. Missy was staying just behind the leaders, which didn’t require much effort for her. It did allow her to think back over the hectic days just before finally coming down here to West Point. The highlight, of course, had been her birthday party. That had also been her going away party and the huge turnout had been overwhelming. Family and friends, all wishing her well. Relatives she didn’t even know, coming up to talk to her.

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