Hansdeltania wrote:Name: Jack Nguyen
Age: 28 (as of 2005)
Gender: Male
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Vietnamese
Appearance: Unusually tall for a Vietnamese, perhaps due to a lot of milk in childhood. About 5' 10", 170 pounds. Black hair in buzz cut; skin color is slightly darker than southern Chinese/northern Vietnamese but not as tan as Vietnamese peasant. Looks like
this jarhead, but hair is much shorter. In combat, he wears the
Special Operations variant of the Battle Dress Uniform and the
Battle Dress Uniform with the
scarlet beret on bases, when not on operations. (Combination of scarlet beret with BDUs
here.)
Preferred Weapons:Primary: M-4A1 5.56mm NATO SOPMOD carbine w/ rail interface system, foregrip, 4×32mm ACOG scope or Aimpoint CompM2 reflex sight, and AN/PEQ-5 aiming laser
Primary (alternate): Mk. 14 Mod 0 7.62mm NATO battle rifle w/ rail interface system, 1.5-5× Leupold Mk. 4 scope, and M14VFG vertical foregrip (though not always attached)
Secondary: Heckler and Koch Mk. 23Previous military and/or law enforcement experience: Special Tactics Officer, 22nd Special Tactics Squadron, Joint Base Lewis-McChord
Specialization: As an Air Force Special Tactics Officer, Nguyen is expected to lead Pararescuemen, Combat Controllers, and Special Operations Weather teams in operations. He has skills in every field, save for aviation (though he has a private pilot's license), but works best with battlefield medicine and has a secondary skill in battlefield communications.
Education: Bachelor's in chemistry, United States Air Force Academy; Master's in chemistry, University of Washington
Biography: Like most Vietnamese in America who were 20 by the new millennium, Nguyen's parents came to the US fleeing the communist takeover of South Vietnam with their parents. He was born on July 19, 1977 in Little Saigon of the Chinatown-International District in Seattle, Washington, home to a growing Vietnamese population, to a lieutenant colonel in the former Army of the Republic of Vietnam and government secretary. Throughout his childhood, his father told him of stories of American soldiers who could summon death from above in the form of F-105s and F-4s—the communications specialists that included Combat Controllers. He aspired to be the one who brought death to the enemy from above. After relations between the US and Vietnam thawed in the mid 90s, the Nguyen family "went home" to Vietnam to visit family, where Jack learned the sights and sounds of Saigon—renamed Ho Chi Minh City—Nha Trang, and Hanoi. His already decent Vietnamese improved during his two-week vacation in Vietnam, allowing him to communicate to Vietnamese classmates flawlessly—unfortunately, a few of his teachers were also Vietnamese, which got him into trouble a few times.
In 1993, Jack started preparing for college despite having more than two years until graduating high school; he had a massive list prepared, which included the Air Force Academy, West Point, Naval Academy, University of Washington, and Bates Technical College. Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) nominated Nguyen to the Air Force Academy, which, after a long and arduous selection period, approved his appointment. During his time at the Academy, he made new friends and realized that he did not want to be a pilot—rather, he wanted to be a Special Tactics Officer. Upon graduating the Air Force Academy as part of the Class of 1999, he was sent to Lackland, Keesler, Fairchild, Fort Benning, and Pope for thirty-six and a half weeks of Initial Training with dual Pararescue/Combat Rescue and Combat Control training before an additional fifty-two weeks of Advanced Training at Fort Bragg, Yuma, and Panama City. When he earned the coveted scarlet beret in 2001, he had orders for Afghanistan. During his two-year deployment, Jack was deployed with a myriad of American and foreign special operations units, namely the 75th Ranger Regiment, Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU, better known as SEAL Team 6), British Special Air Service and Royal Marines, Canadian Joint Task Force 2, and German
Kommando Spezialkräfte. He was involved with Operation: RHINO on the night of October 19th, 2001, the Battle of Mazar-i-Sharif on November 9th, and the Battle of Tora Bora in December of that year.
In 2002, he was attached with 10th Mountain Division when a Taliban ambush killed two Soldiers and wounded three others, including Nguyen himself. Despite a bullet in his shoulder, he returned fire and treated the most serious wound—a sucking chest—wound while requesting a medevac and air support, preferably in the form of A-10s as they terrified the Taliban greatly. When the HH-60 Pave Hawk carrying two PJs arrived, Nguyen directed them to work on the three wounded while he directed an A-10 from the 354th Fighter Squadron. The Taliban force, later confirmed to be numbering in the 100 to 200 range, retreated when the A-10 made two passes, the first one at nearly 400 miles per hour 100 feet above the ground, and the second one with a burst from its feared GAU-8/A 30mm cannon at a Taliban concentration. For his heroism, then-2nd Lieutenant Nguyen was awarded the Air Force Cross, the Air Force's second-highest award before the Medal of Honor, and was promoted to Captain.
In October 2003, Captain Nguyen completed his two-year stint in Afghanistan and returned home to his squadron at McChord Air Force Base. He considered leaving the Air Force in 2004, but planned to stay until 2010 or 2015 and completed his master's work in chemistry. In 2005, a mysterious international organization called the Peacekeepers approached him in an attempt to recruit him. After days of thinking, he accepted, but not before marrying his longtime girlfriend.
RP sample: A lot of active RPs in my region. Also participated in Rainbow 6 and the first Peacekeepers, but I guess those no longer exist.