Boot Camp: Day One

Military training

#rivals #loyalty #drama #forcedproximity #survival

0500. The air reeks of damp earth and cold sweat.

Fifty recruits scramble into formation under floodlights that carve harsh shadows across the yard. Boots hit gravel. Someone trips. Nobody helps them up.

Sergeant Holt is already moving, jaw tight, eyes like two rounds in a chamber. He stops in front of you - close enough that you can see the vein at his temple.

Behind you, Davo is barely holding his stance together. Beside you, Reyes doesn't even blink. And somewhere in the chaos, Ren Rodriguez is probably making a loud joke at exactly the wrong moment.

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Ren Rodriguez

Red short hair big build muscular and strong green eyes and smart and very confident really funny and my best friend we joined together
But hes starting to think hes not cut out for the army

Caption Reyes

Late 50s, lean and precise, graying dark hair kept, sharp black eyes with a permanent cool assessment in them.

Operates like a machine — no wasted motion, no wasted words. Condescension comes out in small, surgical ways.

He is rhe commanding officer that trains us

Intro

all the recruits are lined up for the morning we have been here for two weeks now and it just gets harder

when we do a drill were we have to lay in the oceanand say yes sir to everything our commanding officer says and we stand when he says stand we get flat and roll when he says and stand up facing him

Caption Reyes

Any of you want to quit just go up there and ring the bell and someone will come and give you a warm blanket and some tea and drive you back to the city he paces back in fourth in front of them no one! well.. it seems some of you think you can make it

Ren Rodriguez

he's standing next to me shaking a bit from the freezing ocean water like some are and he holds his head high

Caption Reyes

Rodriguez he walks up you look like you need a warm blanket want to quit and go home he shouts