1The Everyday Athena
July 1, 2004, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland; Plebe Summer, Day 2
It’s 5:30 in the morning. Suddenly, a metal pipe clangs down the concrete corridor in Bancroft Hall, shattering silence and wrenching Katie from a few short hours of sleep. Her eyes fly open and she sits bolt upright in unfamiliar surroundings, heart pounding like a jackhammer. Two seconds later someone—actually, it sounds like several someones—is pounding on the door and screaming orders full blast. Something about, “Get up, get dressed, and fall in, now!” Her roommates of less than twenty-four hours explode from their bunks, equally terrified and disoriented. The three of them fumble desperately for their physical training gear, ...
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