Boot Camp Buddies - Love

🎖️ New Recruit. Big Heart. Total Chaos.
Welcome to Camp Follow-You, where discipline is key, teamwork is everything… and Private Chester Romeo Hunkalunk just showed up in beachwear. 😳

In Boot Camp Buddies – Love ©, the first in a five-part comedy series, chaos meets calling as a band of new recruits learns that real strength starts with loving one another—just like Jesus said.

Can a wildly unprepared recruit from Goose Feathers, Iowa teach the camp something they didn’t expect? 

Find out in this hilarious and heartwarming skit based on John 13:35.

• In this first segment we find out how this . . group . . will show their love and support for each other. (John 13:35)
• In the second segment we find the importance of trust. (Proverbs 3:5)
• In the third segment we learn of the place, and the power, of prayer. (James 5:16)
• In the fourth segment we find out the importance of obeying. (John 14:15)
• In the final (fifth) segment the soldiers recap what they have learned.
  Each segment has a “marching” song written to the theme.
• For the full series order this option.

Cast: 6 m or f

• 6 (could be male or female)
• Hunkalunk, male recruit (a Gomer Pyle type person)
• Adams, female recruit
• Michaels, female, recruit
• Sarge, male, blustery officer
• Lieutenant, female, from headquarters
• Captain, m or f, from headquarters

Bible Reference: John 13:35

Set: standard

Sound: wireless mics if available

Song:

• song “Follow Him” arranged and recorded by DramaShare
• DramaShare members will be sent the three music files from which to choose, the standard file which will work in most cases, a file with a longer introduction, and also a file “Marching Music” which can be used as interlude or background music.

Lighting: standard

SFX:

• sounds heard on a military base: trumpet, marching, jeep passing by, sargeant yelling orders, etc.

Props: none

Costumes:

• military clothing except for Hunkalunk who is in beach clothes

Special Instructions: none

Time: 8

Sample of script:

Bootcamp Buddies: Day 1 – Love

Theme Verse – John 13:35
“This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other.”

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Scene: Parade grounds area. MICHAELS wanders on stage, looking around, bored. ADAMS enters, sees MICHAELS, and walks over.

ADAMS:
Hey there, you look lost. Are you new here at Camp Follow-You too?

MICHAELS:
For sure am! Name is Toni Michaels... sorry, I should say... Private Michaels.

ADAMS:
Private Adams here!

MICHAELS:
I am so excited about being here at boot camp!

ADAMS:
Me too. I’ve been wanting to go to Camp Follow-You like... forever!

HUNKALUNK wanders on stage wearing beach clothes and no shoes. The others watch, puzzled.

MICHAELS:
Uhhh, can we help you?

HUNKALUNK:
Came out to be part of this here Camp Follow-You thingie.

MICHAELS:
“Camp Follow-You thingie”?

HUNKALUNK:
Yeppers! And like what’s you guy’s’s names?

ADAMS (proudly):
I am... Private...

HUNKALUNK:
Oh sorry, didn’t realize it was a secret... (to MICHAELS) And your name is...?

MICHAELS (proudly):
I am... Private...

HUNKALUNK:
Well I’ll be dogged! First day at Camp Follow-You and I run into the secret service fellas first thing off the bat!

MICHAELS:
No, you don’t understand—we are... private...

HUNKALUNK:
Say no more! My lips are sealed is what. An outright pleasure to make the acquaintance of two of our finest undercover officers, for sure!

SARGE enters and sees the others.

SARGE:
Hattenchun!

MICHAELS and ADAMS snap to attention. HUNKALUNK walks over and slaps SARGE on the back.

HUNKALUNK:
Hey there good buddy, how’s the world treatin’ you today?

SARGE (angry):
I beg your pardon, how dare you? I am...

HUNKALUNK:
You new here too? I came in on the 8:20 bus from Goose Feathers, Iowa. Been wanderin’ around the camp. Stick with me—I can show you around.

SARGE (furious):
Soldier, I will have you court-martialed, I will...

HUNKALUNK:
Oh don’t be goin’ on like that, no need to thank me.
But I best give you a heads up— (points to MICHAELS and ADAMS) —these two, best leave them be...

SARGE:
What’s your names...?

HUNKALUNK moves to SARGE, covers his mouth with his hand, and whispers.

HUNKALUNK:
Shhhhhhh! That there is like... private. My guess is these two are, like, secret service fellas. Just best leave them alone, is my advice. Don’t want you to get yourself in trouble, what with this bein’ your first day at Camp Follow-You and all.

SARGE (angry):
Get your hands off me, soldier, or you will be begging to peel potatoes in the kitchen!

HUNKALUNK:
Anytime you needs taters peeled, you just call on old Chester Romeo Hunkalunk. (puts arm around SARGE’s shoulder) I’d for sure be pleased to help out!

SARGE (furious):
I will have you know I am the sergeant of this here platoon and...

HUNKALUNK:
Don’t you be puttin’ yourself down, fella. Why, just like my mom told me before I left Goose Feathers, Iowa—she said, “Boy...” (She always calls me boy on account of all the others in my family are girls... except for my two hound dogs, they are boys too, and...)

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