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Drill & Sanctimony is a military comedy about basic training in a co-ed Army.
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Description:
Paul Sprungli. Overweight. Opinionated. Obsessed with video games and war movies. In U.S. Army basic training, he connives, eats, and bumbles through ten weeks, running a contraband market, exploring religions, and facing military justice from the diminutive Drill Sergeant Pint.
Bunking with Sprungli is an exemplary soldier who succumbs to the most trying element of the modern U.S. Army’s co-ed training environment: falling in love. Sprungli becomes the courier of notes, until he learns to doctor the messages and bring his enemy, Pint, into a fraternizing love triangle.
Chapters:
Airport - Missouri - Breakfast - Fat Camp - Bunk - POSH - Jell-O - Range - Bayonets – Fast Food – Sunday – Article 15 – Phone Calls – . . . → Read More: Drill & Sanctimony only 99 cents for Kindle
A reader just texted me and said that while reading Drill & Sanctimony, her finger started bleeding. That’s powerful comedy writing.
 
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Paul Sprungli. Overweight. Opinionated. Obsessed with video games and war movies. In U.S. Army basic training, he connives, eats, and bumbles through ten weeks, running a contraband market, exploring religions, and facing military justice from the diminutive Drill Sergeant Pint.
Bunking with Sprungli is an exemplary soldier who succumbs to the most trying element of the modern U.S. Army’s co-ed training environment: falling in love. Sprungli becomes the courier of notes, until he learns to doctor the messages and bring . . . → Read More: Powerful comedy makes you bleed? Ouch.
“Paul Sprungli has a strong, definitive voice and his habit of viewing the world through a pop culture lens provides his character with more depth. I really want to see what else Paul can get himself into (or out of).”
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On my CreateSpace preview for Drill & Sanctimony, the following review was posted:
Did you find it humorous? Yes. Funny, but not over-the-top. Highly believable.
Any specific parts that you enjoyed or did not like? I liked when Paul talks about video games as serious accomplishments. It’s funny, because I actually know some people who think that way.
Would you continue reading about Sprungli as he continues his story? Definitely yes! This is the best preview I’ve read so far on Createspace. Nice job! Order Drill & Sanctimony for: Kindle | Paperback | Smashwords
Drill and Sanctimony is now available on Smashwords for 99 cents!
With my forthcoming military comedy, Drill & Sanctimony, I thought I should pay a little tribute to the rich tradition of military comedies, a category that Blockbuster.com has already parsed for my reference. I have a hypothesis that Hollywood runs on a formula, where maximum profits for romantic comedy comes from releasing one every three months. Likewise, a “body swap” movie must be released every two years (13 going on 30, Big, Vice Versa, Freaky Friday). My hypothesis is ridiculous, but trends do seem to occur over and over again.
One type of reoccurring movie is the military comedy. This has a long tradition, starting with Plautus in Rome, who wrote Miles Gloriosus, AKA, The Swaggering Soldier. This play mocked the pomp and circumstance of an arrogant soldier, using a trickster to deflate his balloon. . . . → Read More: The Tradition of Military Comedies, and a New Addition
The paperback is now available for Drill & Sanctimony.
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The newly published novel Drill & Sanctimony is now available on Kindle for 99 cents. Click here to purchase on Amazon.
Yes, yes there is. Someone posted this question to me after seeing that chapter 4 of Drill & Sanctimony is titled “Fat Camp”. Indeed, for overweight and out-of-shape recruits there is a thing called FTU, or Fitness Training Unit. This is more commonly known as Fat Camp.
A Yahoo discussion gives a good overview on what this unit does in an average day. Not surprisingly, the unit attempts to get Privates into shape. In Drill & Sanctimony, the main character, Paul Sprungli, lands in Fat Camp but evades all serious exercise while running a contraband market from his bunk.
 With Drill & Sanctimony, I’ve added a new non-commissioned sergeant to the list of well-known quick-tempered mid-level Army types. I believe they can live up to Merwin J. Toomey from Biloxi Blues, played by Christopher Walken, but probably not up to Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann from Full Metal Jacket, played by R. Lee Ermey. But then I wasn’t trying to outdo either of those movies, I was trying to twist the trope itself. In fact, angry drill sergeant has been done repeatedly since Roman times – but never before in a co-ed training scenario.
Drill Sergeant Pint – A short, dedicated, by-the-book soldier, with war tours under his belt, and while he appears to be the classic boasting soldier, he . . . → Read More: Basic Training and Angry Sergeants and Twisting Tropes
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