Nixon, J C

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Nixon, J C
Posts: 3
Joined: Jul 11, 2011, 11:50 PM
Rank: Warrant Officer
Status: Healthy
Billet: None
Injuries: No injuries
Weapons: Unarmed
Designation: Dropship Pilot

Nixon, J C

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Name: James Christopher 'Trix' Nixon
Sex: Male
Age: 21
Date of Birth: July 7th 2221
Race: White
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 140lbs
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Blonde
Medical Record: Scar on left cheek from canopy fragments during emergency ejection.

Physical Appearance:
James ‘Trix’ Nixon is a small wiry man with black hair and pale green eyes that are constantly alert and watching for trouble. He has a tattoo of a skeletal diving eagle on his right bicep encircled by the words ‘Death from Above’ and a long scar on his left cheek from an encounter with a fragment of canopy Perspex during an emergency ejection.
Trix spends a lot of time in the gym working out but an extremely fast metabolism keeps him from putting on muscle mass, a fact which is a constant annoyance to him.

Personality:
Trix is a classic type A personality, a highly competitive, tight wounds stress junkie fuelled by adrenaline and testosterone. These qualities make him an excellent pilot but can also make him difficult to get along with as he has a tendency to turn everything into competition and a rather more annoying tendency to win. About the only thing that he has trouble with is sitting still and quiet as his habituation to supersonic speeds and the information overload of an aircraft cockpit has reduced his patience and attention span to almost ADD levels.

Background:
Born James Connor Nixon to Patrick and Eve Nixon of Belfast, James grew up in the centre of a city just starting to get its feet back under it after centuries of political turmoil.
Almost from birth, James was fascinated by aeroplanes. He collected cap badges and squadron patches, built models of famous aircraft and read biographies and treatises ohn famous pilots and their achievements. While most boys his age idolised the latest football star or singers, James's heroes were Douglas Barder and David McCampbell.
James's love of aircraft found a ready outlet on the internet, where he played head to head flight simulators for hours at a time until few people could touch his skill or reflexes.
At age 18 James left school with a handful of A levels and headed straight for the nearest recruitment office where he joined the UNSC Aerospace Arm and headed for flight school at Sheppard AFB, Texas where he acquired the call sign ‘Tricky Dicky’ in ‘Honour’ of the former president who shared his name.
James talent for flying was obvious from the start. Flying was everything he had ever dreamed it would be and he excelled at it, progressing rapidly from gliders to props and then to fast jets and VTOL craft.
Now sporting the callsign ‘Trix’, James graduated from flight school with honours and was assigned to the 2nd Battalion of the 21st Marine Division with whom he fought during the closing phases of Operation Ballista.
Trix logged over 300 combat hours in support of marine ground units, ferrying them into combat and carrying out wounded in Cheyenne dropships and Sparrowhawk transports. He scored 4 Air-to-Air kills against rebel aerospace forces during this time and was shot down once when a SAM site tagged his dropship just as he was dusting off. Trix and his co-pilot managed to eject in time and survived with only minor cuts and bruises but were then forced to complete the operation with the marine strike force they had just landed before being evecuated from the combat zone with the first group of wounded personnel.
After combat operations ceased, Trix was transferred back to earth to serve as a test pilot for a new generation of close support gunship based on the UD-3 Sparrowhawk. When the new aircraft entered active service, so did Trix, requesting a transfer to an active combat unit he was assigned to the 22nd MAU to provide aerospace support to the 1st Shock Troop Detachment.

Example Post:
Trix brought the Sparrowhawk in so low over the forest canopy that the treetops almost brushed against the aircrafts belly. A green box winked into life in the HUD highlighting the location of the DZ a few klicks ahead.

Trix flicked on the intercom link to his crew chief in the troop bay. ‘Thirty Seconds Out, get them ready’
The DZ was a small clearing in the woodland less than 150ft across. The Pelican should fit but it would be a tight squeeze. A red light came on on the console warning that the cargo ramp was opening and Trix banked sharply to bring it onto its final approach.
Hard back on the control column.
Main engines throttle back to 10%.
Full power to ventral thrusters.
The pitch ladder span through the HUD as the Sparrowhawks nose flared, spilling its momentum and coming to an almost dead stop in mid-air, its lift thrusters screaming to arrest the drop ships rapid descent.

The transport hit the ground with a thud and Trix quickly pulled back on the power to avoid incinerating the disembarking marines.
Their boots hammered down the cargo ramp and as soon as they were clear of the thruster’s blast zone, Trix hit the power again, redlining the engines to lift clear of the forest canopy.
Trix flicked a switch on his control column and IR flares and chaff canisters fired from the tail of the sparrowhawk to decoy any hidden SAM sites in the area.

A chase cam displayed on the MFD showed the last of the marines disappearing into the tree line as Trixs afterburners flared and boosted him safely back above the cloud layer.

‘See you on the flip side lads’ he muttered as he set his course back to the Forward Operating Base
Death From Above!
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