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Her Highness Crown Princess Carolina joins the NSP- Ananto Brigade in Eveari



Her Highness, Crown Princess Carolina Ananto-Hulanevek joins NSP
Majority brings new responsibilities for enthusiastic Princess
Eveari, Grand Duchy of Ananto
June 25, 5564

Her Highness, Crown Princess Carolina Ananto-Hulanevek has joined the National Service Program in Ananto.  She has been assigned to the Ananto Brigade of the NSP, where she will work on a bridge crew, and will eventually become a civil engineer for the Service.  Her service will be 4 years.  The Crown Princess, currently a Conscript Second Class is progressing through her basic training and is in the second month of her field training, where she learns basic safety, crew operations, power tools, and is introduced to a variety of different jobs in the field.  Conscripts in basic training live in quanset huts, which house whole platoons of conscripts, along with their respective Commissioners, or Conscripts who have chosen to re-enlist and make National Service their career.

"This is the first time I have actually lived with so many different people," said Crown Princess Carolina.  "It is a real experience.  My best friend in our squad is from High Bong.  The way she talks about that place, it sounds like magic.  When we get leave, I will ask my mother if I can take a trip there with her to see her home."  When the future sovereign finishes recruit training, she will go to her specialty school where she will learn more advanced topics related specifically to her eventual job.

"It's all very exciting," said the Crown Princess.  "I'm tired from work every single day.  But this is teaching me so much about being independent and disciplined and also about the importance of my team.  We have about a half hour each evening for individual time, and we can attend Meeting on Sunday by ourselves if we want to, but other than that, we are always with the Platoon, marching, standing inspection, doing PT.  Its very similar training that the Regular Force goes through, except we don't carry rifles-- We carry shovels.  There's lots of physical labor involved in recruit training, but I get it:  its so that no matter where we came from in the Empire, whether you are a worker's daughter, or like me, the daughter of the Empress, you get to learn what it feels like to do work, and then do more of it, and then more of it.  Until you appreciate those who have to do it all day every day."

The recruit conscripts often work alongside active duty crews while in training.  "We will go out to work with the Active Duty Crews maybe 2 days a week," said Crown Princess Carolina.  "And they work right along side us:  When they take a break, we take a break.  When they get back to work, so do we.  Our Commissioners are there making sure we are putting in 'max effort'  and we try to give it our best, because there are often other platoons there too, and if we have to clear a ditch on one side of a road while they are on the other side of the road, we are often in a contest to see who can get the work done the fastest and the best.  The Commissioners keep track of that, and at the end of the training cycle, they always pick one platoon who is the best, etc.  Its very prestigious to win I'm told.  We're going to try to win it, but there are a lot of platoons out here that seem to know what they are doing."

Her Highness will remain in the field one more week before returning to her platoon's base camp in Bluegrass Valley along the Eveari River.  "Then its all inspections and finals and the last polishing before we will head out to School.  I'll probably been in math and physics class for another 4-6 months before I am assigned to a bridge crew, but they have already informed me that I will be working on a new bridge and road project that will connect Eveari and Bozo River to the new settlements in the Six Sisters region.  I'll be part of building at least two complete bridges before I get out in 5568.  That will be very exciting.  This is the most awesome thing I think I have ever done, and then when I am done I can hold my head high like all other Kalistanis and feel a sense of pride in my Empire and my place in it."  

When asked if she has experienced any difficulty transitioning from her life in Kaliburg to life in the NSP, the young Royal said "I mean, at first it was difficult.  Nobody was really sure how to treat me, because of, you know, who my mother is and everything.  So I was called in to the Senior Commissioner's office one day about 2 weeks in and she said 'Your Highness, I know you joined voluntarily, and I also know you didn't have to.  What I mean to say is, Are you sure that, with our focus on the team and everything, are you sure you feel comfortable in this environment?'  And I told the Senior Commissioner that I have waited to join the NSP since I first heard about it as a little girl, and nobody, not her, not the other recruits, and not even my mom was going to keep me from doing this.  As a person who wasn't born here, this is something I know all Kalistani kids do, and if I was denied the chance to show that I can do it too, Kalistan would never fully accept me.   They have to accept my mom, but I have lived here twice as long as I lived in Kundrati, and I feel it in my soul that this is the right thing to do, as a Kalistani.  There weren't any more conversations after that.  Its been really hard, but I've been in for almost two months, and so I am used to it by now.  I get to do something my dad did, and his mom and her mom and every other Ananto.  I am one of you now."

The Recruits still call the Crown Princess Your Grace, but she insists that her commissioners call her Recruit Conscript like everyone else.  "Recruit Conscript Ananto:  And put some pride on that Name!" said The Crown Princess, mimicking the cadence and inflection of a Commissioner in charge of recruits.  "Recruit Conscript Ananto" continued by saying that she is very proud to be a member of her Platoon, and looks forward to showing her mother how strong and disciplined she has become in the NSP when she takes leave before school.  

Before joining, Her Highness the Crown Princess attained her majority, and was officially named Crown Princess of Ananto and Kalistan by act of the National Assembly, upon orders from Her Imperial Majesty, Empress Pavlina I Ananto.  She was also created Countess of Dulnerstaad, and was formally inducted into the Ancient Order of the Grey Smoke as a Dame Protector of the Crown.  While she is in National Service, she is forbidden to wear any other insignia of her office besides her official rank insignia, which is none.  "I have all these titles already," said Her Highness, "but no power to disagree with an order from my commissioners.  They have earned my trust and my compliance.  That's as it should be."