G.I. Jane Page #21

CORTEZ:

Four years I petition to get into

this program. Four years. Finally

get here, and now it's co-ed? Such

bullshit. Now I'm gettin' hammered

just 'cuz she's on our crew.

SLUTNIK:

Least you don't have to sleep with

her every goddamn night.

CORTEZ:

Tellin' you, I'd rather be the last

class with balls than the first one

with chicks.

CUT TO:

EXT. UPPER DUNES - CORONADO NAVAL BASE - NIGHT

Jordan and Flea fill sand bags to shore up the walls of

their hide-site. England and McCool shovel back to back.

MCCOOL:

Had a grandaddy who wanted to be a

Navy man. Wanted to fire them big

guns on a big-ass battleship. But

Navy said to him, "Oh, no. You can

only do one thing on a battleship."

"Well what's that?" grandaddy said.

"Cook," they said. Now this ain't

100 years ago -- I'm talkin' United

States Navy, middla World War II.

And you know the reason they gave

him? You know why they tol' my

grandaddy he couldn't fight for his

country?

ENGLAND:

He talked too much?

MCCOOL:

"Negroes can't see at night. Bad

night vision."

JORDAN:

You're kiddin' me.

Jordan jumps in the hole, ready to take over shoveling.

MCCOOL:

See, you just the new n*gger on the

block, O'Neil. That's all. And

maybe you moved in too early.

He climbs out. HOLD on Jordan, looking off down the

dunes, seeing the other crews covering up and going

underground for the night. How the hell did she wind up

here? So far from home?

EXT. SILVER STRAND HIGHWAY - DAY

A Jeep speeds along the public highway, carrying the C.O.

back to base. When the Jeep tops a rise:

C.O.

What in God's name...

Ahead, a half-dozen news crews are camped on the shoulder.

All cameras are trained on the base.

INT. BEDROOM - GEORGETOWN APARTMENT - NIGHT

CAMERA FINDS Navy dress blues laid out on a bed... topcoat

draped on a chair-back... CNN on a television.

CNN COMMENTATOR (TV)

... is denying that it is

considering changing its long-held

policy of exclusion -- but it isn't

denying the presence of at least one

female in a heretofore all-male

program. Dubbed "G.I. Jane" by the

media, this woman is now undergoing

commando training at the Special

Warfare Command Center in San

Diego...

Half-shaven, Royce leans out of the bathroom in time to

catch...

Footage from Coronado: A woman in Navy greens is on a

beach run, loaded down with backpack and M-16. The NEWS

FOOTAGE ZOOMS IN, FREEZE FRAMES with the indelible image

that will be used over and over in coming weeks: Woman

cradling rifle. Madonna for the 21st century.

ROYCE:

Goddamn. My poster girl.

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