[This story features significant disciplining and involves bodily functions. If you find this bothers you, please read no further. All characters are over 18. My thanks to Susan Greenway for her kind permission to use some of the characters from her stories.]
Linda had enjoyed her short-term assignment to a Re-Education Center in the Women's Republic's second-largest city. In addition to the usual Corrections Service function of retraining delinquent men who had been referred to the center by their wives, mothers, sisters, or girlfriends, she had provided training in disciplining to women who were assuming the role of "responsible woman" in their households or families.
The "responsible woman" had both the authority to discipline the members of the household or family at her discretion and to delegate this authority as she deemed appropriate to other women in her unit. Linda, who had been promoted to Sergeant First Class back at the headquarters retraining unit where she dealt with Correctional Officers who had gotten into trouble in their units, found herself gratified to see how she could show these women outside the Corrections Service how to exercise their new authority effectively.
This training was severe as it was truly the last chance for the officers sent there by their local unit commanders. But at the Center, Linda had had the easier task at times of training the newly empowered "responsible women." One of her favorite proteges was an attractive 19-year-old named Kate who had been sent for training in disciplining by her stepmother Jan.
Kate had stayed in touch with SFC Linda, who was both slightly surprised and very pleased to hear that Jan had not only delegated disciplinary authority in the family to Kate but had actually transferred her own role as responsible woman to her stepdaughter. Kate had a natural bent toward dominance which she managed to exercise quite effectively, according to what Jan had written to Linda.
Jan's last message to Linda had contained a request. She said that Kate, although enrolled in a local college, struck her as a young woman with good prospects in the field of discipline. Jan said she was aware of a program that the Service had initiated to recruit college women that featured eventual entry into the Corrections Service through direct commission as a commissioned officer. She asked Linda whether she thought Kate might qualify for consideration for this program.
Linda recalled that she had found both Jan and Kate readily accepting the training Linda provided. She sent Jan a return message asking her to send Kate to see her at the headquarters unit where Linda would arrange for her to undergo the rigorous interviewing and testing process for admission to the program.
Jan then spoke with her stepdaughter to let her know about Linda's willingness to sponsor her for direct commission into the Corrections Service.
"This is a great career opportunity if you find it something congenial for you," Jan suggested. "I'm not pressuring you at all, because I know you have your own outlook but just hope you will consider it."
Kate smiled and agreed that they both had benefited from Linda's excellent training. Since Linda had extended the offer, Kate said she would make the trip to the capital to see if this turned out to be something she wanted and if she could make the grade.
"Sweetie," Jan responded, "Linda wouldn't have made the offer of she didn't think you could make the grade. I'm pleased you're willing to give it a try. Once you get there, of course, she will put you through the wringer so be prepared to submit to being initiated with some, yes, ferocity is the word. But the goal is worth it."
Kate got in touch with Linda and her appointment at Corrections Headquarters was arranged. She packed a small case and dressed up in that she wore a nice cream blouse and pencil skirt. Her figure was good, and she wore clothes well. Jan had advised her not to overdo either her clothes or her makeup because she would likely be wearing a set of fatigues soon after she began the testing and training.
The flight to the capital was on time and Linda had sent an escort to the airport to meet Kate and drive her to the prominent headquarters building. Kate was impressed with the impressive reception area and the attractive uniformed women who were in charge of orienting women like Kate to the facility.
Her first interviewer was CPT Muriel, a 30-ish friendly but clearly focused officer with flaming red hair. She told Kate that her invitation to apply was an indication that she was recognized as a young woman with promise, but Muriel proceeded to interrogate her about the particulars of her experience in disciplining her family members.
"Your stepmother apparently felt you had the determination to take charge," she asked her, "but how did it feel to discipline your father for the first time?"
"I love my father," Kate answered directly, "and I felt that it was my responsibility to present him directly with the fact of his misbehavior and to spank and cane him accordingly."
She went on to describe how she had to deal with her brother's strong resentment when Kate decided that he had not behaved well enough for her to approve his college return form without his undergoing some discipline.
"He really did seem put out when I rejected the form and made him submit to my cane and then to go through the rigmarole of obtaining a new form for him to present to me for signature," Kate observed. "It did make me recognize the level of responsibility I had assumed and felt I needed to exercise capably."
CPT Muriel took all of this information down and after some more questions, sent her to 1SG Wendy, who was the top noncommissioned officer in Linda's retraining unit. Linda had let Kate know that she would likely be interviewed by Wendy who had been responsible for helping Linda salvage her own career after she had been sent to the unit for retraining.
Wendy, who was in her late 30s, and had the gruff exterior of a senior noncom, did allow to Kate that Linda's recommendation went a long way to assuring Wendy of her bonafides. Wendy, however, warned her that the training to win the direct commission was severe.
"You will be very embarrassed," Wendy informed her, "and I mean very. Have you ever been subjected to intimate inspections and bathroom supervision?"
Kate did blush but responded that she had enforced a rule in her own disciplining of her family members that denied requests for bathroom breaks or even permission to use the bathroom prior to the imposition of discipline.
"Very good," Wendy smiled. "I think you understand that as much as you may love and respect your family, when you have been designated as the 'responsible woman' and especially in your case, at what I must note is an early age, you need to be able to impose discipline strictly yet still retain the respect of the member who is being disciplined. Effective discipline aimed at true correction need not involve physical punishment. Making someone in need of correction wait to use the toilet can produce good results too."
"You'll now be going to see my superior, LTC Rachel," Wendy said, "and this will be a major step in this interviewing process. I've seen your written examinations and you look like a strong candidate. LTC Rachel will ask you some probing questions and I would advise you to answer her directly. You may resent my telling you this, but I want you to show your best self. Don't be flustered by the embarrassing nature of any of her questions. At some point, too, she will likely send you for a very intimate examination, so be prepared to be very embarrassed. It's worth it to you."
She smiled and accompanied Kate to the retraining unit, where Wendy escorted her into LTC Rachel's large office. Kate was clearly impressed by the size and décor of the office as well as by the impression made by LTC Rachel, who was seated behind her massive wooden desk and looked all of her 40+ years. She was attractive in a military sort of way, with a tight sandy blondish ponytail atop her immaculate field officer's uniform.
Rachel did not rise to greet her. She motioned to Kate to sit in one of the chairs in front of her desk.
"Are you ready, at your age, to learn how to make women who have misbehaved in society and in this Service accept strong discipline and reform their behavior?" she asked. "You do come well recommended but this training is going to test your mettle, Missy."
Rachel proceeded to question Kate about her disciplinary background.
Answered. growing up?" she asked.
"Yes, Ma'am, my mother believed in spanking us on our bare bottoms when we were naughty," Kate answered.
"You said 'us. Were you ever spanked in the presence of others in your family or was it done privately by your mother or father?"
"My mother was the dominant person in our family," Kate explained. "She spanked all of us, including my father, and she would discipline when she felt it was needed, no matter who else might be present.
