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Princess Margaret Nicolette Ananto-DeLaurentis at NSY
Young Royal assigned to Ship Building in Kaliburg
Kaliburg, Grand Duchy of Ananto
February 7, 5632


Princess Margaret Nicolette Ananto-DeLaurentis works labor at the KALMILINCO National Shipyards

Princess Margaret Nicolette Ananto-DeLaurentis has received her National Service Assignment.  She builds ships.  Specifically at the moment, she is assigned to a labor crew at the National Ship Yards in Northwest Kaliburg, and works with other Conscripts to provide the shipwrights with materials and tools as requested.

"Well, it's not something that I would have guessed I'd be doing," said Her Highness, Princess Margaret Ananto-DeLaurentis to The Republic's Josh Conner.  "But the exciting thing is, I'll work labor through a whole season then will end up doing more specialized work as I advance in the Corps.  They can train you to do anything:  I could become a forklift driver, or a welder.  By the time I get out, I expect that I will be leading my own shift crew.  Anything is possible, really."

Most jobs are assigned by combining aptitude with requests within the frame of the needs of the service.  "In my case, I asked to build things.  I'm pretty good with my hands, and like mechanics and everything.  But I am also pretty athletic and sporty, and so the NSP must have put those three things together to give me a job where I can do work a lot of other girls my age will not do, working in heavy industry.  It's really unexpected but I am already getting into the groove and figuring out the shift and all the things that are expected of me, and things feel like they are clicking."

The Countess of Luxon will be stationed at the National Ship Yards for the remainder of her Service obligation.  "It's handy, rally, because I can be close to my mom this way, and during liberty, can even go home to have dinner with her when I'm not on Duty," said the Princess.  "The Shipyards here are really the closest duty station you can get with the Ananto Corps to Kaliburg:  Our barracks are on the north side of Kaliburg.  So that must have been part of my stationing here as well: I asked to be close to Kaliburg."

The National Shipyard at Kaliburg Arsenal produces and repairs all ships in the Kalistani Regular Navy, while civilian ships are built in Sulari and Gaduridos.  "We may get a contract to replace a submarine while I am here," said Her Highness.  "That would be exciting.  Or something bigger.  I would love to work on a capital ship, see how it runs, see what it looks like down at the bones level."  If she has a choice in the matter, Princess Margaret said she would like to work on propulsion.  "I don't know if they let Conscripts build those kinds of things, but what an experience that would be!  To be able to watch the ship you helped build sail out of the Arsenal on its way to taking up its post on the High Seas and know, you did that.  That would be exciting."

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