Out of Service

After serving three years in the United States Air Force as the first certified women jet engine mechanic at March A.F.B., if not the whole air force, Senior Airman Shane is hand cuffed, arrested and taken to the north end of the base where no one ever goes. The story begins on June 20, 1975, at Lackland AFB, TX. , when Shane, only seventeen, starts her first day of basic training. Little does she know her life will become a series of challenges and compromise. After practically acing Jet Engine Technical School, she arrives at her permanent party base bravely facing the insurmountable adversity of a woman in man’s world; the jet shop. It isn’t until the unexpected help of one black man does she learn the true essence of being a jet engine mechanic, what military protocol really is, and what trust, fairness and friendship can be. She also meets a woman that will change her life forever, as her coming of age turns bittersweet, she learns what loving and losing can bring, what life and death offers, and how justice is served at her court martial…