Fact1: Senator Lillian DeHaven from Texas criticizes Navy for not being gender-neutral, Fact2: women compare in series of test cases, Fact3: first test is training course of U.S. Navy Combined Reconnaissance Team, Fact4: O'Neil To make survive grueling selection program most before fourth week with third week being particularly intensive grade, Fact5: brutal training program involves 20-hour days of tasks designed to wear down recruits physical and mental strength including pushing giant ship fenders up beach dunes working through obstacle courses and hauling landing rafts
Output: A Senate Armed Services Committee interviews a candidate for the position of Secretary of the Navy. Senator Lillian DeHaven Anne Bancroft from Texas criticizes the Navy for not being genderneutral. Behind the curtains, a deal is struck: If women compare favorably with men in a series of test cases, the military will integrate women fully into all occupations of the Navy. The first test is the training course of the fictional U.S. Navy Combined Reconnaissance Team similar to U.S. Navy SEAL BUDS. Senator DeHaven handpicks topographical analyst Lieutenant Jordan ONeil Demi Moore, because she is physically more feminine than the other candidates. To make the grade, ONeil must survive a grueling selection program in which almost 60 percent of all candidates wash out, most before the fourth week, with the third week being particularly intensive hell week. The enigmatic Command Master Chief John James Urgayle Viggo Mortensen runs the brutal training program that involves 20hour days of tasks designed to wear down recruits physical and mental strength, including pushing giant ship fenders up beach dunes, working through obstacle courses, and hauling landing rafts. Given a 30second time allowance in an obstacle course, ONeil demands to be held to the same standards as the male trainees. Eight weeks into the program, during SERE training, the Master Chief ties her to a chair with her hands behind her back, grabs hold of her and slams her through the door, then picking her up off the floor he repeatedly dunks her head in ice cold water in front of the other crew members. ONeil fights back, and is successful in causing him some injury despite her immobilized arms. In so doing, she acquires respect from him, as well as from the other trainees. Navy leaders, confident that a woman would quickly drop out, become concerned. Civilian media learn of ONeils involvement, and she becomes a sensation known as G.I. Jane. Soon she must contend with trumped up charges that she is a lesbian, and is fraternizing with women. ONeil is told that she will be given a desk job during the investigation and, if cleared, will need to repeat her training. She decides to ring out ringing a bell three times, signaling her voluntary withdrawal from the program rather than accept a desk job. It is later revealed that the photo evidence of ONeils alleged fraternization came from Senator DeHavens office. DeHaven never intended for ONeil to succeed; she used ONeil as a bargaining chip to prevent military base closings in her home state Texas. ONeil threatens to expose DeHaven, who then has the charges voided and ONeil restored to the program. The final phase of training, an operational readiness exercise, is interrupted by an emergency that requires the CRT trainees support. The situation involves a reconnaissance satellite powered by weaponsgrade plutonium that fell into the Libyan desert. A team of U.S. Army Rangers is dispatched to retrieve the plutonium, but their evacuation plan fails, and the trainees are sent to assist the Rangers. The Master Chiefs shooting of a Libyan soldier to protect ONeil leads to a confrontation with a Libyan patrol. During the mission, ONeil, using her experience as a topographical analyst, realizes when she sees the teams map that the Master Chief is not going to use the route the others believe he will in regrouping with the others. She also displays a definitive ability in leadership and strategy while rescuing the injured Master Chief, whom she and McCool pull out of an explosivesladen kill zone. With helicopter gunships delivering the final assault to the defenders, the rescue mission on the Libyan coast is a success. Upon their return, all those who participated in the mission are accepted to the CRT. Urgayle gives ONeil his Navy Cross and a book of poetry containing a short poem, Selfpity, by D. H. Lawrence, as acknowledgment of her accomplishment and in gratitude for rescuing him.