Senata Populus Que Caelum wrote:Insaeldor wrote:Nation Name: Insaeldor
Character Name: Howard "Huey" LaMay
Apperance:
Allegiance: USMC
Rank: Master Sergeant
Assigned Unit: Bravo Battalion, 1st company, 1st platoon
Primary Weapon: M40 rifle.
History/Description: Howard was born in 1927 to family in rural Alabama where he lived until his father was stationed to at Ladd Army Airfield near Fairbanks Alaska in 1938 when he was 11 years old. His father was an enlisted officer in the army and was stationed at Ladd even during the start of WWII until the start of the Aleutian Islands Campaign in 1942. Howard idolized his farther thinking him a hero and wished to be just like him in most every way. He trained his body and his mind to someday join the army and went hunting before school almost everyday looking mostly for moose and smaller animals to hunt.
August 1st 1943 however cemented his wishes to join the military even greater as it was announced to the family just 14 days before the end of the Aluttian Campaign that his father had died during the Battle of Attu. Devastated by his fathers loss and wishing to somehow right the wrongs inflicted on him by the Japanese he joined the Marines in 1944 at the age of 17. Glossing through basic training he joined up with the 1st Marine Division just before the invasion of Okinawa. Armed with just an M1 he made his way through the island with his squad although never seeing much in the way of front line action.
After the victory and occupation he was designated to be a part of operation downfall before it was cancelled thanks to the dropping of the automic bombs. Afterward he was stationed in Okinawa until the start of the Korean War where he first experienced combat in the Battle of Inchon (serving alongside First Lieutenant Baldomero López) and later fought in the Second Battle of Seoul and in Wonju. During this time his marksmanship was noted and highly praised by his commanding officers and without any training his CO's armed him with a M1903 Springfield rifle and had him act as a sniper for the remainder of the war.
After the war he was nominated to be a United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper and did his respective training to be one, afterwards he was stationed in Japan for the time being and later to Seoul just before the start of the Vietnam war where he started out as an "adviser" during the Kennedy administration and later as the war expanded he became more envolved in the conflict. He's currently on his second deployment in the region.
Accepted but are you sure you don't want to be in the attached sniper unit with Australia's guy?
*thinks about it for a bit*
While that would put two of my characters in the same company I'll do it!
