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Short Story: Who's Parson In The Air Force

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“Once upon a time there was prince, and from a young-

“Wait, Jack is a prince?!” Chow asked, mouth full of food.

“What? No,” The recruit said, annoyed that he was interrupted from beginning his dramatic tale, “Hold up, what are you even eating? (“It’s chowder, I think.” Chow made a face as he stared down at the oddly colored food in his bowl, as he managed to pick the only gross thing on the menu) Okay, Chowder, just listen to the story,”

“From a young age, he knew he was to inherit the kingdom from his father. The kingdom of being an high ranking Airman. Extremely high ranking. His father was the Vice Commander of his Wing, the father of his father was a Lieutenant General. He had high standards to live up to.

“But the prince …show more content…

“If rumors are true, he made Honor Grad of his flight. He probably has like 80 medals already, and he just graduated. And while he was here, like shit, it would’ve been an honor just to watch this guy work out. Color me impressed.

“Anyway, Parse and Zimmermann were best bros. They did everything together. They smoked all the pop quizzes, they would compete to get the highest PT scores, etc. Of course, they both got 1st each time so it didn’t really matter, but you get the gist. They were even scheduled to leave for Basic on the same day.

“Question,” Chowder said, as they were all in line to put their trays away. “If Jack had already been to here, why is he new now?”

“Getting to that,” The storyteller rolled his eyes, he put his finished dishes in the the collect box and then kept talking while they headed back.

“‘Were’ is the key word. You see, as the days got closer for Basic, Jack got more anxious. Which is to be expected, of course, but, you see, Jack had it …show more content…

Bitty was excited for this part. For one, because he knew how often they marched at Basic Training, and secondly, he knew a lot of people in the marching band and was especially excited to rub his new military knowledge in Sam’s high school band geek face.

Disappointingly, Bernard stopped him before he could head out the door with the rest of the class.

“Nuh uh,” Bernard shook his head, “You and the other newbies need to go get your military IDs. I don’t want to have to send a day pass to the gate every month.”

That was true. Bitty wasn’t even allowed in the gate without a Military ID. He had to pull off to the side so the security guards could check the system to see if he had a pass. Luckily, everything went over well and he was able to get in, but that experience wasn’t one he wanted to have every single month.

Jack Zimmermann rounded about, faced the Sergeant and repeated, “I already have one, do I have to go?”

“Yes, you do.” Sergeant Bernard said, “You are a newbie, so we are going to treat you like one.”

Jack glared, “What am I supposed to do?”

“You and Parson can teach the new kids how to march while you all wait. You know how long it takes to get new guys

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