Battle Buddy
I was seventeen when I joined the fleet for the required five years. I was from a rural colony and got a shock when I started basic. Not only did we have women sleeping in bunks with us, they showered and thought nothing of being naked around the men. The first day we were paired up, normally it was men together and women together. We had an odd number of women and Jess became my buddy. They called us battle buddies because we were to do everything together and watch each others back in...