Edward, Z.

[Edward, Z.]

UNITED NATIONS SPACE COMMAND DEFENSE FORCE
PERSONNEL COMMAND (PERSCOM)

CAREER SERVICE VITAE

Basic Information
Name: Zach A. Edward
Age: 25
Birth Date: September 17 2516
Birth Place: URNA, Earth

Service Information
UNSC Military Identification: 9674676
Service Number: 94656-85663-ZE
Rank: Lance Corporal (E-3)
MOS: 0351
Billet: Fire Team Point Man

RIFLE QUAL: 234
PISTOL QUAL: 200
SWIM QUAL: S3
PFT: 180

Unit Information
Command: 22nd Marine Division
Regiment: 12th Regiment
Battalion: 1st Battalion
Company: Oscar Company
Platoon: Second Platoon
Squad: First Squad
Fire Team: Second Fire Team

Medical Information
Gender: Male
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 150 LBS
Eye Color: HAZ
Hair Color: BRN
Blood Type: AB+

Personality Profile: Guns, technology, and soda. Being a loner isn't that bad. Zach's primary focus is what's on task, whether its ambushing the enemy or repairing and studying reactors. He knows that his squad is his family, but has a hard time being around everybody. During his off days, you will find him sitting under a tree. A book in one hand and an green apple in the other. If not outside, he's in his corner tinkering on electronics.

When you can't find him, he is probably in the forest. Peaceful and tranquil. Walking through the woods on an old paths, listening to all of nature. Due to his trips out to the forest without any electronics, he is almost always late to the briefings.

Training is important, Zach prefers to train while no one is at the training grounds. While in MCT, Zach's choice of combat weapons were the assault rifle and the shotgun.

Physical Description: Zach is six foot, average body size. Likes to have his hair cut short and a clean shaved beard. Due to his fast metabolism, he can always be found eating. Has two tattoos, one of which has two gears on his left arm, on the gears is says COG, his second is a radiation symbol that covers almost his whole back.

There sits a scare on his right arm from where another cadets grenade prematurly detonated just a couple of seconds upon releasing. Zach got the better end out of the deal, the cadet that threw the grenade had to get his arm reattached as well as remove various fragments.

Being built for warm temperatures is useful, since most places he were sent to were above normal temperatures. You will always see him dressed accordingly, but no shorts. Don't expect him to dress all fancy for you. He's here to survive and win a war not look good.
"Don't remove the helmet."

Background Information: At the age of seven, Zach was granted approval to study at the Nuclear Institute. He was very fortunate because they only allowed four new students per year. There he studied extensively for almost five years. Studied on how reactors worked and fixing them. When it came for finals. He was sent on an old military ship, having eight hours to repair the reactor before it became critical, using only the material in the ship.

He never saw his parents much after he finished college. All of his classmates, after passing had gotten the radiation symbol tattooed on their backs. Keeping only them within contact. He sent a few messages to his parents, but since they were all in the nuclear field, they thought that they could now work together as a family.
Unfortunately, the UNSC had drafted Zach due to his expertise on reactors, inside and out. He was sent to Fort Adams for combat training. He hated the physical training, but he did find some interest during his combat exercises. Had a hard time following someone else's orders, proved to be difficult. Even though he was able to finish untouched while the rest of his team was already out. For disobeying direct orders from a superior from training, got sent to the hold for a week. There was a pistol with one round, and only got a little water and bread each morning. At the end of his punishment, they found Zach carving instructions on the walls. Their trying to break him had failed. The Pistol they put in there was taken apart completely, using the firing pin as a chisel.

He was held at boot camp for almost a year, and being held in the hold for a total of two months. He had a good shooting scores, especially with the shotgun. Assaulting the enemy was something they noticed, and no matter what the odds were. He normally was able to catch the enemy off guard.

Eventually graduating, he was glad he never had to see his old squad again, once he went into the UNSC's nuclear program where he learned about their military reactors. There were many nights that Zach stayed up working nonstop to repair already bandaided reactors.
For the next three years, Zach never saw any action, just repairing reactors. Until, while he was on a UNSC Freighter, "The Fighting Pheonix." Being taken to another planet to do repairs. A explosion blew the bridge clean off, Zach was stuck in his quarters and managed to get to the hanger bay. He and a few pilots started to load pelicans with guns, ammo, provisions, warthogs and two tanks. They made several trips to an lushish planet, uninhibited, by Humans nor Covenant.

Surviving for six months, the few men turned the pelicans into livable houses one for each person. Zach sat in his Pelican with manuals on tanks, he's never used one, and no one had any experience. Their emergency beacon was able to signal help but also the Covenant and they arrived first.

They were able to keep the enemy at bay with guerrilla tactics. After two days, the tanks were useless due to the limited ammunition. Warthogs were tapped out of fuel.

Upon surviving, Command thanked the men for their service. Zach was taken aside, and was sent to the UNSC All Under Heaven for a full debriefing. Afterwards, he had three choices.

1. Join Oscar Company. An old acquaintance requested that he join his company.
2. Continue to repair reactors.
3. Become an ODST.

He easily chose the ODSTs, but the training was quite difficult. His favorite thing was the HALO jumping. But with all of his clearances, he was let go back to the Marines. With no other choice as he did not wish to return to his previous occupation, Zach switched his MOS and joined Oscar Company.

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