General Info
- Full Name: Johnathan Christopher Graham
- Sex: Male
- Height/Weight: 5'7". 165 lbs.
- Age/DoB: 26. 8th November, 2160.
- Birthplace: New Albion Medical Centre, Tau Eridani
- Citizenship: Incorporated Colonial -- Limited Residency
- Bloodtype: B+
Service Info
- Service Number: MI-2181-28314
- Assignment: USS Almayer, 2/4 Marines, 4th MARDIV
- Rank: Lance Corporal
- Billing: Attached Corpsman, Delta Platoon, 2/4 Marines
Service History
? 9th November, 2181 � Enlisted: US Colonial Marine Corps.
? 21st November, 2181 � Training: USCMC Recruit Depot, Tau Eridani.
? 16th January, 2182 � Training: USCMC Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - Georgia 525.
Promoted to Private First Class. Graduated MOS 0311 (Rifleman).
? 22nd March, 2182 � Assigned: 1/5 Marines, USS Magellan. Standard patrol duty and traffic interdiction.
Billing: Rifleman, Delta Platoon, 1/5 Marines.
? 3rd February, 2183 � Training: USCMC Advanced Infantry Training Battallion, School of Infantry - Georgia 525.
Promoted to Lance Corporal. Basic Reconnaissance Course completed, re-assigned MOS 0321 (Recon Marine).
? 11th June, 2183 � Status Altered: WIA during COIN operations on outer colony Freedom Ridge.
? 1st July, 2183 � Awarded: Purple Heart.
? 5th July, 2183 � Discharged: US Colonial Marine Corps. Reason: Elective, medical leave.
? 8th January, 2185 � Enlisted: US Colonial Navy.
? 11th January, 2185 � Training: USCN Recruit Training Command - Colonial.
? 3rd May, 2185 � Training: USCN Medical Education and Training Campus.
Graduated as Hospital Corpsman, third class.
? 16th July, 2185 � Training: Field Medical Training Battalion, Camp Mattis.
Rated to Lance Corporal, cleared for Marine Corps attachment.
? 8th August, 2185 � Assigned: 2/4 Marines, USS Almayer. Emergency response and patrol.
Billing: Attached Navy Corpsman, Delta Platoon, 2/4 Marines.
? 3rd November, 2185 � Transferred: 1/4 Marines, USS Detroit. Emergency response and patrol.
Billing adjusted: Attached Navy Corpsman, Bravo Platoon, 1/4 Marines.
? 12th January, 2186 � Awarded: Fleet Marine Force Enlisted Warfare Specialist Device (FMFEWS).
? 9th February, 2186 � Transferred: 2/4 Marines, USS Almayer. Emergency response and patrol.
Billing adjusted: Attached Navy Corpsman, Delta Platoon, 2/4 Marines.
Biographical Segment
Graham was born to a poor rural family in the colony of New Albion, located in the distant outer rim system of Tau Eridani within the Anglo-Japanese arm. He worked for years as a farmhand alongside his brothers, who frequently badmouthed the weak USCM garrison on the planet. Graham agreed that the Marines there were weak, but, as the younger brother, he despised his siblings just a little more - and ratted them out to the Marine garrison when he uncovered their role in a militia raid on their supply depot. He didn't necessarily find the validation he was looking for from the USCM, but now ostracized from his family on a dead-end world, he decided his only choice was to keep the relationship going.
Mere days after he turned 18, he was shipped off to a local Colonial bootcamp, and then placed on a shuttle to SOI at Georgia 525. Throughout his short tenure in the Corps he was noted to be a bit of a hothead, wanting to see action wherever it took him. He ate up USCM propaganda with a voracious appetite, finally feeling as though he was a part of something more. As long as he didn't get much coffee, his squadmates tended to enjoy the company, as his boisterous talk filled up the dropship as they simulated a CLF raid or a colony check-in. His home away from home, the USS Magellan, was a dinky patrol craft made out of the better part of an aging light cruiser, and the single battalion of Marines that took shelter in it were dwarfed by its expansive size. Nevertheless, Graham somehow found a way to fill the halls with chatter.
His first combat drop came just before 2183, a minor affair on the Sigma Epsilon 5 mining colony. Four crewmen took up arms and holed themselves up in the command center, and in response, MSF Herculis deployed the 1/5 Marines aboard the USS Magellan - specifically Delta Platoon, Graham included. Negligent discharge of a mounted grenade launcher led to six casualties, four of whom later died. Blame was abounds, from faulty mission planning, to lack of supplies, and perhaps most importantly, having only a single Corpsman on standby. Graham never saw combat that day, but the image was seared into the back of his head, as many more were sure to be. He nevertheless continued on his course to be the best Marine he could be, attending the Advanced Training Battalion as soon as he was able and completing the reconnaissance course, qualifying him to serve under the recon specialists aboard the Magellan.
11th June, 2183 - another insurrection, this one much larger, on an agricultural colony far from Georgia 525. It took the Magellan nearly a month of travel to reach the colony, by which point the insurrection had erected a garrison and fortifications, and declared it a world of the Liberation Front. The entire 1/5 Marines were deployed to re-take the colony, and it was here that Graham would see the action he so desperately craved. Graham was deployed ahead of the main landings alongside a small team of Delta recon specialists, and it was not long before their mission as pathfinders for the main landing force put them up against stiff CLF resistance. Their position was quickly surrounded by hostile forces, and the half-dozen strong recon team shortly found themselves low on ammo, with only four of the six still able to walk. Graham himself took a round to the shoulder early on as he lased coordinates for Marine air, and it was only for the grace and good timing of those CAS birds that he even survived.
He awoke in a Marine Corps hospital bed two weeks later, to the familiar face of Corporal Hartman, one of the surviving recon marines. She informed him that the mission had been a failure, and that approximately one-third of the Marines had perished attempting to breach their defenses. Disillusioned from the military's propaganda and recovering from a non-critical gunshot wound, Graham elected to take a medical discharge from the Marine Corps. The following two years of his life saw little of note, but he found it increasingly obvious that his limited military service had opened few, if any career opportunities outside perhaps contracting and freelance work. Faced with outstanding medical debt and edging toward an early mid-life crisis, Graham decided to re-enlist - but this time, with the Navy.
Graham breezed through the Navy's basic training program, electing to serve as a Hospital Corpsman attached to a marine detachment. Just over two years from his discharge from the Marines, Graham found himself once again in that same equipment, this time assigned to the 2/4 Marines aboard the Almayer. The Almayer was a comparatively smaller but certainly newer and more well-equipped vessel, with tasking to match. He made quick friends among his Corpsman partners in Delta as well as his general squaddies, although his "second tour" so to speak found a slightly more reserved Graham, trading in his boisterous humor for sardonic, dry wit and sarcasm. Other than an involuntary transfer between November and February to the 1/4 Marines aboard the sister ship Detroit, Graham has slowly gotten used to calling the good ship Almayer home - and perhaps a little more comfortable in his new role.
Known Relations
Friends
? Alicia Parker - A finer Corpsman than I could ever hope to be. Manages to keep up in the smartass department, too.
? Frankie Day - A gentleman and a scholar. (Actually, neither of those things.)
Brothers-in-Arms
? Cliff "Chubs" Campbell - Good leader, better demolitions expert.
? Tal Ravis - Probably the only Marine I trust with a set of power tools, or a heavy machinegun.
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