OOC Info
[Steam Username]: Clipper
[Steam ID]: STEAM_0:0:45719853
[Sponsor's Steam Username]: TheIrishGhost
[Sponsor's Steam ID]: STEAM_0:1:44928188
IC Info
Name: Benjamin Hoover
Alias(es): "Ben" "Benjie" "Big Ben" "Foxtrot 1-5"
Age: 26
Ethnicity: African American (Jamaican, Trinidadian)
Character Advantages/Talents: Strong body build. High physical limits. Can speak English, Jamaican and Trinidadian fluently. Very strong sense of awareness. Engineering training. Advanced Anti-Tank training. Three years total as an active service marine.
Character Disadvantages/Weaknesses: Large body structure, easier target. If working with explosives can crack under pressure if being rushed. Average shot with his rifle. Can be held down with his equipment, depending on what he carries. Will cause him a bit longer then normal to become unfatigued.
Faction: United States Marine Corps
Current Equipment:
1x M27 IAR w/ Squad Day Opticsights; AN/PEQ laser pointer; One ergonomic foregrip
x5 5.56 Magazines STANAG
1x Beretta M9 9x19mm Parabellum [Sidearm]
x2 9mm Magazines
1x Ka-Bar Combat Knife
1x MOLLE Tactical Backpack
2x M67 Hand Grenade
2x AN-M18 Smoke Grenades
1x USMC BDUs
1x Modular Tactical Vest [MTV]
1x MOLLE Tactical Harness
1x Kevlar Helmet
1x Combat Elbow-pads
1x Combat knee-pads
1x Combat Boots
1x Multi-Cam Gloves [Fingerless]
1x Multi-Cam Hard knuckle gloves
4x MREs
1x IFAK / PAK
1x Water Canteen
1x Maglight
1x Short-range Radio
1x Multi-tool
1x XM-40 Gasmask
2x Paracord w/ clip
Pointform Biography:
*Born in the year 2000, in Greenville, North Carolina.
*His family wealth was around upper-middle class wealth, allowing for Ben, his soon coming brother and his older sister obtain a well off education.
*Played football and lacrosse during his middle school years and continued on till high school becoming Captain of the Lacrosse team and having to drop football.
*Upon graduating he went off to Louisiana State University for two years before dropping it, returning home and acquiring a stable job till he was around 21.
*After looking over the benefits of the armed forces and always having an interest in servicing his country he went off to sign up.
*After being shipped off too Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and passing basic boot, he went for the 12b combat MOS and finished off his training there.
*He was sent off to Syria for his first deployment, being apart of the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines Foxtrot company. His role as a combat engineer allowed him to get quite use to the base.
*However in 2026 he was sent off to Ukraine because of the on-going tensions, within a few months of being there his convoy was struck with an attack. A majority of his unit was scattered or killed while Ben eventually found his way to the refugee camp.