My name is Jacqueline. You can call me Jackie. Until recently you could call me Sergeant. I am now retired from the service. I will be twenty-seven years old on Sunday, at fourteen hundred hours. I was a hematology nurse. I am in good health, considering. I have a dog named Gus. I live near the beach. I drink tea. I learned to love tea in Kirkuk. Some days we had tea ten times (...)
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"Sergeant" Jackie? Hematology "Nurse"? "Retired" at twenty seven? Why so careless with the ludicrously fictional setup for what could have worked, had it not been so offensively inaccurate to us military folks in the first couple of sentences. Next time Mr. Doyle assumes a persona, tell him to get a technical advisor - any grunt who had more than two weeks in boot camp would have pointed out such foolishness. Ruined the whole thing....