Fort Hood Prostitution Ring

[rjordan]

Here's a ready-made story for someone. The writer should have first hand knowledge of the U.S. Army to get the dialog and story details right, but someone willing to do a little research should be able to handle it.

It's basically about a Sergeant at Fort Hood who runs "sex parties" for high ranking officers. His wife is involved or at least knows about them. He recruits cash-strapped female soldiers under his command to attend these parties. They work the crowd with blow jobs and whatever else can be accomplished at a party.

Over time, the parties evolve into one-on-one prostitution using female soldiers to service high ranking officers.

Big CID investigation brings it down.

google Fort Hood prostitution ring. Lots of stories because he was recently sentenced.

The Daily Beast article that appeared today is pretty graphic and practically outlines a story from beginning to end. I think it came from "U.S. News"

Have at it.

rj

 

[RicoLouis]

Only problem with getting the dialogue right is would a normal person be able to understand it. The Army abbreviates everything.

 

[Texguy84]

I've found that most folks in the military don't know what any of the acronyms mean anyways.

 

[rjordan]

Only problem with getting the dialogue right is would a normal person be able to understand it. The Army abbreviates everything.

I don't think a lot of obscure military jargon would be necessary or even a good thing on this site. I just meant that the author should have enough familiarity with the military not to say stupid things. Any time you are writing about something you know nothing about, you can say stupid things that turn the readers off.

For example, I recently read a story here involving a male 1st Lt Platoon Leader and a female 2nd Lt second in command. They were calling one another by their first names in front of the troops. It's a little thing, but anyone who has been in the military (LOTS of us) would find it laughable.

Anyway, if nobody takes it, I might do a little outlining and see what happens.


rj

 

[Carnevil9]

I've found that most folks in the military don't know what any of the acronyms mean anyways.

I'm not in the military, but I work with a lot of people who are. I've found that they do know what the acronyms mean, they just don't always know what they literally stand for. For example, everyone in the military knows that "TDY" means they are going on business travel, but not all of them could tell you that it stands for "temporary duty."

As for the story suggestion, here's a possible title: "A Few Hard Men."

 

[Sean Renaud]

I've found that most folks in the military don't know what any of the acronyms mean anyways.

Speaking as a Marine that's because we really only learn the ones that are ours specifically. People get the idea that the military is a concrete wall not a bunch of lego blocks forming a wall. For every guy who is out in the field being a bad ass there are a dozen of us tending the ammo, fixing the Humm Vs, repairing the jets and helicoptors so on and so forth. The jargon is far from universal.

So your best bet is to either ignore it all together or make up your own and explain it as you go.

 

[sr71plt]

A story on the GM rent-boy ring among the enlisted at Fort Hood would be a fresher approach with more pizzazz, I think.

 

[rjordan]

Speaking as a Marine that's because we really only learn the ones that are ours specifically. People get the idea that the military is a concrete wall not a bunch of lego blocks forming a wall. For every guy who is out in the field being a bad ass there are a dozen of us tending the ammo, fixing the Humm Vs, repairing the jets and helicoptors so on and so forth. The jargon is far from universal.

So your best bet is to either ignore it all together or make up your own and explain it as you go.

Even the slang is completely different. Even though we were all grunts with common experiences, I can hardly talk to friends who were Marines sometimes. We end up spending more time explaining and laughing at the terms we were very serious about at one point in our lives than we do telling the story.

Not to belabor my original point that familiarity with the military is important to writing something reasonably authentic, but let me take another stab at it.

If someone were to write a story involving:
CIA
NASA
Native Americans
males
females
gays
lawyers
court trials
inmates
Mr. Mom
whatever

The writer would have to have some familiarity with those things to write an authentic story. It would be impossible to ignore it or make it up and explain it.

A male writing even a passable female character is on thin ice and vice versa.

Someone not in the legal profession is on thin ice with a court scene.

Pilot's suggestion to write the gay story at Fort Hood rather than the prostitution ring story makes my point. It didn't even occur to me to write the gay story as I doubt I could write the story from any POV other than a clueless outsider.

So maybe that's the answer.

rj