<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/nzMMba7.png)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><em>Sergeant Marina Chernova -  Raven</em></span><br/><br/>Marina's cynical mind took in what was being said. We are given outdated junk because the command doesn't take us seriously. The pilot is more expendable than the fuel tank. I'm going to be spending a lot of time hopping out of the wing of the plane to hit bombs with a wrench and hope they fall and don't explode in my face. She assumed she would be a navigator, she was certainly better at it than being a pilot.<br/><br/>It sounded horrible, but then again, it was a horrible time. The Nazis were threatening everything they knew and loved, and it was time to make sacrifices for her homeland. History would surely remember them as being on the side of the victors, even if she doubted that anyone would remember the names of herself or anyone else in this division.<br/><br/>She repeated the oath with clear, crisp intonation, a soldier doing her duty. She replaced the word man with woman. She wasn't going to sacrifice that part of herself after all. Anything else, blood, sweat, tears, her limbs, her body, if that was what it took. But she was not going to pretend to be a man, even if being born one would have made her life easier in so many ways.