Age: 32
Gender: Male
Field of Study: Aviation
Physical Description: Carl is a Caucasian male standing at 6 '1 and weighing in at 176 pounds with a mesomorphic build. Carl’s body is well toned and muscular from his prior service at the United States Marine Corps, on top of him continuing his regular workout routines. Carl’s head is oval shaped, with a square jaw, blue almond shaped eyes, thin lips and aquiline nose. His black hair is cut into a low fade and slicked back, his eyebrows are thick, along with a large bushy mustache covering his upper lip. He shows signs of early aging from stress, with the bags underneath his eyes, along with his hair starting to gray along the temples. His voice is raspy and gruff with a thick northern accent. He frequently wears glasses to correct his vision.
Carl favors dressing casually, but appropriately. He goes out of his way to avoid looking like a stereotype, avoiding the 'Grunt Style' t-shirts and Oakleys, and instead goes for buttons ups and polo shirts on most days. He prefers brighter colors on his shirts, and has a lengthy Hawaiian shirt collection. For shoes he switches between hiking boots or running shoes, whichever is more comfortable for him to work in the day.
On the day of the project, Carl was dressed for the weather. He wore a brown bomber jacket with a fur collar, underneath that he wore a gray “JAWS: Battle for Amity” short sleeve button up that depicted various scenes of the Shark battling the Orca ship in the pattern of a Hawaiian shirt. Underneath that he wore a white long sleeve shirt for an extra layer. He wore a pair of tan jeans, and a black pair of hiking boots. He also brought a black pair of leather driving gloves and a silver watch. He wore aviator framed glasses with transition lenses.
Background:
- Carl was born in New York City, New York on October 12, 1990 to Andrei and Madeline Kowalski. Andrei was a firefighter and Madeline was a Middle School Teacher. Carl grew up comfortably middle class and had a mostly unremarkable childhood.
- Growing up, Carl had middling scores in school, mostly C’s with a few B’s and D’s peppered on his report card. Despite struggling, he’d never finished any of his classes with an F, though he had multiple close calls. Carl participated in multiple school sports teams, including football and wrestling, where he performed significantly better than in the classroom.
- Carl grew up in a rather patriotic family, with his family joining the military straight out of high school, something they’ve done since Carl’s great-grandfather emigrated to the United States from Poland in the aftermath of World War 2. His grandfather took part in the Vietnam war, and his father took part in the Grenada Intervention. Carl was likely going to follow in their footsteps, but that decision was cemented on September 11, 2001. While Carl was lucky he hadn’t lost his father that day, he did lose many of Andrei’s coworkers, whom were family friends. This had left Carl with an anger building in him until he graduated high school in 2008. The first thing he did was talk to his local recruiter and enlist with the United States Marine Corps with the MOS 0331, Machine Gunner.
- The first enlistment and the first half of his second enlistment were the most eventful to Carl. He’d been across the globe in multiple training exercises including Japan, Norway, and Korea, on top of multiple deployments in the middle east including Iraq and Syria, where he’d encountered direct combat. Carl performed admirably as a marine. He followed orders, held his squad mates accountable, and took initiative when needed. When he'd make a mistake, his fire team was punished for it. When he became a fire team leader, when his men made mistakes, he was punished along with them, and it was up to him to fix the discrepancy. To Carl, that was simply the way the marine corps worked, and that's how he adapted to the system. Though Carl was strict on the clock, he was known to 180 in his free time, becoming much more relaxed and easier going.
- At this point, Carl had decided he wanted to stay in for the full twenty years, but if he were to be eligible for his third enlistment, he needed to take a B-billet. He signed on and was selected as a Drill Instructor, where he’d spend the next three years working at Parris Island, South Carolina, to train the next generation of Marines. It was a stressful job, Carl had roughly three to four hours of sleep a night and had to use his full effort to work the recruits into shape. This change of pace had caused to pick up anger issues, due to the short time period he had to train each platoon of marines, on top of the repeated mistakes he'd seen happen over and over again each time a new platoon was cycled through. To Carl, those three years were a haze, and though he's proud of his service, he couldn't help but notice common mistakes that agitated him.
- Once he completed his tour, he returned to working in the fleet as a Gunnery Sergeant at Camp Pendleton, California. Now he was in charge of an entire platoon of Marines, rather than just a squad leader. It was a difficult job for him, and though he learned from his experiences as a Drill Instructor, there were many noticeable differences compared to the fleet. For one, he was now in charge of a squadron, and they had a reputation for their misbehavior. Carl tried disciplining a constant problem causer in his unit, the way he was disciplined as a junior to avoid writing him paperwork and potentially ruining his career, only for the marine to report him for hazing. Carl was charged, and though he didn't lose rank or pay, he was disbarred from reenlistment.
- It was at this point Carl grew discouraged from the Marine Corps. He'd spent almost twelve years of his life giving his all, and for one mistake that he deemed unfair, it cost him everything. He'd suffered hearing loss from close proximity to fully automatic weaponry and artillery with sub-par ear protection and had worn away the cartilage in his knees from constant ruck marches. He'd tried to keep a marine out of trouble, and he was the one who got burnt for it. On his last year of service, Carl had basically given up, doing the bare minimum required out of him, and writing up marines for their mistakes. The marine who had reported Carl for hazing received multiple NJP's and hadn't even finished his first enlistment before getting admin separated.
- Once he got out of the Marines, Carl needed to find a new career, and there weren’t many openings in the civilian world for a machine gunner. He chose to go to college and learn avionics to become a commercial pilot. He traveled north and settled down in Tacoma, where he joined University of Cascadia for his Bachelor’s.
- Though he’s a full-time student at the university, Carl feels as though he has trouble relating with his classmates. Whilst he’s cordial with his professors and classmates, he doesn’t open up because he feels as though he’s part of a different world. He also doesn’t plan to stay in Tacoma, as he’s willing to move where he’d find the most work. He still cares for his personal fitness, and continues to work out to keep in shape, though not nearly as strenuous as he'd done in the Marines, to avoid adding on excess wear and tear into his body.
Assets: Carl is physically fit,and has experience with combat zones due to being a machine gunner. He is well versed in tactics in fire and maneuver.
Limitations: Carl’s body shows clear wear and tear from his service, and he suffers from minor back and knee issues that could impede his movement, especially in cold weather. He also suffers from hearing loss.
