Chapter 10 Olivia Smith (Fleshless)

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Since 1948, even with the Women's Armed Forces Reorganization Act, American women have been banned from engaging in certain military professions.

In particular, there are major professions related to direct combat, including submarines and Marines.

In 2016, the U.S. Secretary of Defense announced that all military professions will be open to women without exception.As of 2018, 18 women have served in combat weapons in the Marine Corps.

In December 2020, the Marine Corps finally accepted female soldiers. 53 of the first female combatants successfully graduated from the recruit training camp and became Marines.

They are under heavy pressure and high hopes. They are always rejected at the beginning. Now male soldiers are training side by side with this group of strong and independent women of the new era, carrying the same backpacks and hiking the same distance.

Hopefully this eliminates some gender bias.

Since then, one woman after another has been involved in the Marine Corps.

Of course, Olivia Smith

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Olivia Smith is a blonde and blue-eyed southern woman from Texas, southern United States.

She was not a child raised in a war zone, but her childhood was full of violence and uneasiness.

Most of the time, these bruises and wounds associated with violence come from her mother, a woman who is addicted to alcohol.

Olivia lived with her mother until she was thirteen, and she also had a sister and a younger brother.

The family lives on a remote farm.

According to Olivia, her mother's temper, coupled with the catalysis of alcohol, made her already unstable mood even more dangerous.

Whenever that unreasonable anger erupts, the child will be beaten; in order not to let his petite siblings be affected, Olivia usually has to be beaten alone.

She still remembers one time...

Olivia can't remember the reason...

She was wearing thin clothes and was locked outside the house by her mother.

It was winter nights, and Olivia could only shivered in the wind and snow.

If her father hadn't come back from outside on a business trip and quickly brought Olivia back into the house, she would have been frozen to death outside long ago.

The factors that made the mother anxious at the beginning were mostly due to money issues.

The mother also asked all the children to hide in the basement where the agricultural instruments were placed, just to avoid the pursuit of money from visiting the debt collector.

Their lives are far from being rich, and they cannot be called a well-off society.

Although each of their children goes to the farm to help, the financial situation at home is getting worse and worse, the mother's emotional control seems to be the same.

The scolding and physical beating are more frequent.Finally, when Olivia was thirteen, her father made up his mind to take the child away.I will remarry a year later.

When she was upright and puberty, she began to resist her father and was also hostile to her stepmother.She skipped classes and skipped school, and only got C or D scores in school, as if she was hopelessly missed.

At this moment, the United States was attacked by terrorists, killing thousands of people.

This incident completely changed Olivia's outlook on life: there are more important things in life than her own miserable life!

The younger generation of them must declare war on those enemies.

Just like countless young people, she believed so deeply.

To transcend her own dreams and interests, what should she do for the country?

Her father did not want her baby daughter to join the army and risked her life to join the war; in response, Olivia not only studied everything she needed to know when she joined the army, she reported to the recruitment center almost every day, and it has been like this for half a year. She showed strong determination to her father. In the end, her father compromised.

The premise is that Olivia must complete her high school degree before she can join the army.

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Olivia Smith thought to himself, since he wanted to join the army, he should be a soldier who could fight on the front line!

She chose to enter the Marine Corps who had just opened combat positions to women.

To achieve this goal, Olivia has been exercising her body for months.

But once she actually entered the army, she admitted that she had not completed the training for the next thirteen weeks in her mental state.

Three days before staying in the boot camp, she felt her feet standing almost all the time…

One thing that was beyond Olivia's expectations: she thought she would be bald, just like the movie "The Devil's Soldier"...

No, women's hairstyles are quite standard. The hair should not be left over the shoulders, the sea should not be left over the eyebrows, and the long hair should be tied to the back of the head and coiled into a round shape, etc.

"Female soldiers should become strong without losing their temperament!'That was what the instructor said at that time.

The physical fitness test also pushed Olivia's physical endurance to its limit.

Daily exercises and psychological pressure exerted by instructors can almost force people to collapse.

When she finally had an hour's nap, Olivia was like a doll with a broken silk thread, and she fell to the bed and couldn't move at all.

Getting up early in the morning also makes people feel nervous to the point of being overwhelmed.

Under the instructor's roar and shout, everyone had to be ready in a short time. Some girls were too nervous and wet their pants while queuing to go to the bathroom.

New recruits are not allowed to sit down; you can stand or squat, you only have these two options.

After a few weeks, Olivia has gradually become accustomed to this kind of life.

She carefully avoided the instructor's line of fire and helped her peers overcome difficulties while training herself, but some of them were helpless.

They were unable to adapt to the life of the recruits, and were exhausted by excessive scolding and orders, which led to unstable emotions.

People with good situations will retreat when they see the difficulties and withdraw on their own; people with bad situations will stand up to resist the instructor; that is definitely not a wise move.

One of them supports Olivia's motivation to continue, either because she wants to prove her ability to her parents, or prove her difference from her biological mother...

Perhaps, that little Olivia, who was rebellious by nature, always existed deep in her heart and never disappeared.

Eventually, she and other female soldiers overcame the devilish training of the Marines, successfully graduated and became a new group of American female soldiers.

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Olivia is not only the first woman to come to the camp to perform missions, but also the first soldier from the Far East, and is also the highest 180cm woman in the ranking of height and shortness. Simply put, she has set many first records.

In this barracks with only one football field, full of forty soldiers, there is only one girl, Olivia, and the rest are all male.

She first served as a machine gunner, and then became the general driver and commander of the truck fleet.

She didn't care whether she was the only woman in the camp; in fact, she liked this feeling quite a bit.

She voluntarily chose to join this environment dominated by men, which is even less good for women; usually, those arrogant chimpanzees always say that women cannot do this or that...

But Olivia is different. She wants to defeat men in her own realm.

And she did the same.

Although each soldier was not very friendly at the beginning, even members of the firepower team were skeptical of her.

However, she quickly proved her ability and won the respect of her colleagues.

That was what happened during a routine patrol:

That day, two platoons went out to patrol. Olivia sat next to the driver's seat of the truck in the front, holding automatic squad weapons in her hands, and the muzzle was naturally aimed at the open window.

Their team had just cleared a certain MSR (Main Supply Rad supply road), the scorching sun was setting, and Olivia and her group were also on their way back to the camp.

However, the road home is extremely sinister and may be more appropriate to describe it as infamous; it has been deployed by the enemy in so many IEDs, and the road surface has been blown up beyond recognition, and you can't even feel that you are driving on the asphalt road.

Truck drivers must always turn left and right to avoid letting the wheels fall into potholes.

Whenever the convoy encountered a large pothole, Olivia had to get out of the car to check whether new explosives were buried inside.

Because the convoy is too slow, Olivia sometimes has to walk next to the convoy.

This behavior is actually very dangerous because a sniper may attack soldiers who are not protected by bulletproof glass at any time.

But Olivia still did the same, because her colleagues did it and she had no reason to back down.

Perhaps it was because the sky gradually faded and the vision was poor; or because everyone was anxious to return to the camp and seemed a little impatient; Olivia and the driver of the front convoy did not pay attention to the fact that there was an IED made of 155mm artillery shells and two rocket warheads buried in a pile of gravel on the side of the road.

The moment Olivia's truck's rear wheel hit IED, it detonated on the spot.

But Olivia herself heard no explosion.

She only felt a swaying sky and earth, and the shock wave seemed to throw her out of the car--

At that time, Private Alex was sitting in another truck behind Olivia, and he was very sure that the violent explosion just now teared the petite body to pieces.

Just by judging with the naked eye, you know that almost no one can survive!

When the dust finally settled, Alex found that the rear half of the truck was blown to pieces.

He ran to the front of the truck and saw the twisted and deformed doors blown away by shock waves, lying on the ground several meters away.

Olivia was curled up in her seat, and she was still holding on to her rifle.

The originally fair face was covered with a thick layer of gray smoke, and the Kvela vest on her body was completely rotten.

There seems to be no obvious trauma, at least all limbs are still alive.

She even stood up, as if standing tall.

After that, everyone not only respected Olivia's constant danger, but also indirectly increased the morale in the camp.

Since Olivia joined the new force, she has told herself that she must not reveal a trace of weakness; she will never allow herself to be defeated by the "original sin of a woman" or what should be called "the stereotype of a woman".

She is always confident and refreshed, with a very cheerful and stoic personality.

Olivia believes that she is the representative of the new era of American women: strong, confident, independent, not bound by marriage and family, and does not rely entirely on men.

She firmly believes that she and her fellow Marines will have a bright future await her.

Until the day when the mysterious Chinese kingdom in the east started the war