Mama Squad book & screenplay LOG LINE: A retired Army sergeant recruits some ladies from a retirement home, trains them in unconventional tactics, and uses them to free some captured American service personnel held by a tin-horn dictator.

SYNOPSIS OF BOOK & FEATURE-FILM SCRIPT,
In his quite dramatic and very humorous recruitment speech, reminiscent of General Patton, delivered at the Sunnyside Home for Retired Ladies, a re-tired Army Sergeant and the main character, Raymond Arnold Waldo, recruits some elderly women for an irregular and unorthodox military unit he names the Mama Squad. Sergeant Waldo (also called Sergeant RAW) tells the ladies (later called “mamas”) “Hey, mama, you think you’re too old to fight those commies, mommy? The Mama Squad wants you. When it comes to fighting dirty, ain’t nobody can do it like a feisty old broad. We need ‘em.”
Sergeant Waldo promises to train the mamas, by adapting what they already know against future enemies. He urges the mamas-to-be to “hit ‘em with your purses upside the headrun ‘em down with shopping cartslet ‘em have it with hat pins and rolling pins.” While listening to the sergeant’s speech, the ladies imagine themselves in various types of action. Images from these revelries are juxtaposed against those of real warfare. When Sergeant Waldo even guarantees a place for those in wheelchairs in the new mama squad, one lady imagines herself in a wheelchair, with machine guns mounted on its arms and blazing away at the enemy. And what self-respecting mama-to-be could resist the many incentives and benefits that the sergeant promises: free uniforms, medical care, and bingo on post every Tuesday? And to the first “red hot mommy killing commies, he promises a personalized bazooka--after you finish with the commies, you can use it against the young punks in your neighborhood.”
…..After training them, Sergeant Waldo leads the mamas on a mission to rescue some captured Americans held by a tinhorn and very anti-American dictator. To create a diversion for the escape, one of the mamas consumes an entire can of beans and then uses her own natural gas to cause an explosion and set the enemy fort on fire. Another mama uses her bra as a slingshot to fire rock-hard biscuits at the pursuing enemy.
….. The book and script are packed with other comic images and dialog but contain enough pathos and drama to keep the story interesting and exciting. As a retired 78-year-old man, I know how important it is to feel and be useful.
The book was published by BeachHouse Books. For more information on the book, including a free sample chapter, see .