The Ascension

Every girl arrives at a processing station at any of the various army bases in the area. They are given through medical exams and all of their bodily quirks are categorized. That is because each Ascension is initially fitted to each girls specific physiology the first time around. This lessens the chances of rejection by the body, although unfortunately some candidates do not survive.

The procedure follows these steps:

Phase 1: Arrival
Upon first arriving, an Initiate's belongings are burned aside from one palm sized item that they wish to hold on to. This is not only to instill a sense of "new beginnings" into the girls, but the start of conformity. The girls are stripped down and told to bathe. They are then examined by doctors for things like illnesses, injuries, birth defects, etc. All of these are sorted through with basic medical care. Once they are done, the girls are shuffled along in simple medical gowns to the next step.

Those girls born into the military life from the get go skip this phase and get new clothes from the beginning.

Phase 2: Education
The girls get an intro course in what their new lives will be like. Many of them were taught from the day they could read about their fates to become Angels, the glory they would bring to their families, and cementing their spots in history. The girls are all gathered in one room to pray for the strength to make it.

Phase 3: First Operation
To turn an Initiate into a Cadet, they go through an intense sequence of operations with the following:
 * injections of anti-aging and fertility hormones
 * nanobots and nodes implanted into the body and reproductive organs for the WEB system
 * coating the skeleton in a liquid metal to bolster durability
 * artificial insemination and a final stabilizing cocktail of drugs that turns the tummy from flat to full term in under 10 hours

Unfortunately, 11% of all candidates don't make it past this step. This was down from the original 30%.

Phase 4: Training
Now that the girls are official AA Cadets, they are divided into squads and put through a series of tests. Their days are filled not only with physical training, but school work as well. All the while their superiors are grading them on their performance. Everything from high test scores to hobbies that the girls pick up on their own are secretly weighed. A day before graduation, the girls come into their classroom with papers face down on their assigned seats. Many of them start to sweat, hoping to get something other than the Grunt title to the end of their name. Some will cheer that they get to become the Angel of their dreams, while others hang their heads in disbelief.

This is the longest phase, as the Academy takes 3-4 years.

Phase 5: Final Ascent
A final set of operations turned already strong cadets into powerful super soldiers. This is the last hurdle, but only with a 0.4% mortality rate. This is because of the already massive transformation each girl's body has gone through. After that, the squads are shipped off to war.