Tasoth wrote:Egads, you trust me with a metric fuckton of soldiers? Ack, whatever happens, I'd prefer the position with less troops to handle to ease my multi tasking. But, as it would seem, I'm at the whim of the high commander.
[Well, Tycho hasn't shown up yet, so I'm placing you in command of the whole 10th Marine, as a full Colonel. You can handle it.
If he shows up and wants to reassume command, you give it to him, but for now, that's where I need you. Report to the
Omaha for your command.]
[Here's my bio (ZOMG, name change):]
Brigadier General Isaac "Ire" Reynold
Steadfast and loyal, the CO of CTF 81's Expeditionary Strike Group is career soldier. Born in Nashua, New Hampshire (US) in 1948, he was first deployed to South Vietnam on his twentieth birthday, on the heels of the disasterous Tet Offensive. He saw comparitively little action, but nonetheless served with distinction, and bore the rank of Corporal by the time his unit was withdrawn in 1974. Over the next decade, he recieved a commision and served in several US naval task force operations, rising to the rank of Captain by the outbreak of World War Three. Reynold was WIA during a USN landing operation in the North Atlantic early in the war, and upon returning to duty, commanded a Marine Company near Hamburg for the remainder of the war. His most notable action during the conflict involved the daring rescue of a group of British Marines trapped in enemy ground by a Soviet offensive, an action which won him an honorary Military Cross.
After the war, Reynold served in Europe for several more years before withdrawn to an administrative position in Washington, D.C. He was briefly a tactical advisor to the President of the United States, but was quitely removed after openly voicing support for the formation of the UN's GDI. Though officially supported by the US government, several generals in the Pentagon disliked what they viewed as the subversion of the nation's ability to exercise military power. Reynold would have likely have been pushed into early retirement, but the influential Admiral Christy, under whom he had served briefly during the opening of WWIII, offered him a command position in the newly-formed GDI Coalition Task Force 81. The appointment was supported by a British member of the UN Security Council, whose son had been among those Reynold had saved near Hamburg, and soon the Marine officer found himself in command of a segment of one of the most powerful multi-national task forces ever assembled, along with an entire Brigade of US Marines.
Though hardened by the carnage of war, Reynold was convinced by his time in Europe that mutli-national cooperation through the UN, militarily and politically, was the only way to prevent another major conflict, and as such places the utmost importance on his new role. However, though he has served aboard Navy ships before, he has never commanded them, and is somewhat nervous about his new role, even he if doesn't like to show it.
Though typically understanding and relatively lenient with those under his command, Reynold usually wears a stoic and even combative persona when on duty, which has earned him the nickname Ire amongst the non-comms of the 10th Marine; he rather likes it.
Ah, and I've slightly alerted the Marine distributions to factor in the
Ocean-class's capacity.
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