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Description

Mario stands around six-feet tall and weighs in a trim 192 lbs of lean, hard muscle. His hair is a deep black, and kept an unkempt length that allows him to blend in better when in the field. His olive skin and hazel eyes allow him to blend in better with indigenous people. His laugh is easy and genuine, belying the danger that often lies under the surface.

Being Filipino-American his features are often hard to pin down, allowing him to pass himself off as a good many diverse people along the Pacific rim. While ruggedly handsome he is easily forgettable, which is a great trait for operators in the field.

Personality

Personality- A driven, highly competitive man, but one who fits the adaptive criteria for the special forces. Being adept at handling emergency or crisis situations. Able to deal with the stress and pressures of being in hostile environs for long periods of time. Solving problems in creative ways. Dealing with unpredictable and rapidly changing work environments in a decisive manner. Quickly able to learn work tasks, technologies and procedures with minimal repetition. Displaying and demonstrating cultural, interpersonal and physically orientated adaptability.

That being said, he is an easy going guy. Someone you'd have a beer with. A regular guy who passes himself off as a gym rat and extreme sports fanatic.

Equipment

Equipment is mission specific. But a basic load out is as follows:

He carries a MK 23 HK double-action automatic pistols, in tactical holsters. This is 12-round, box magazine fed pistol that fire a .45 caliber, 230-grain Hydra-shok jacketed hollow point rounds. He carries 4 extra magazines


Other weapons depending on mission parameters.

A HK416 Carbine:Caliber 5.56x45mm NATO (.223 Remington), Operation Principle Gas operated, firing from a closed bolt. Modes of Fire Semi-automatic, full automatic. Feed Device- HK 30-round steel box magazine. This has a sling set up as well an integrated reflex sight with nested IR laser aimer and illuminator. He carries 5 extra magazines.

A Benelli supernova tactical pistol grip shotgun, a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun. This is a super-light, shotgun capable of firing 3.5 inch magnum rounds. With a capacity of 4+1 rounds. On the butt he carries 4 rounds of extra ammo. This has a sling set up for easy carrying.

Load out initially:

3x Terminator rounds. These rounds contain a hollow core slug which has dozens of tiny lead pellets that spread dramatically as the core expands to 1-1/2" on impact. The initial shock caused by the core is further enhanced by the tiny shot, creating massive tissue damage.

2x Fireball Rounds. These 12 gauge rounds produce an enormous wall of fire and sparks for 250+ feet. The incendiary metal contained inside burns at over 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit when fired, showering the target in a momentary wall of fire.

Butt Ammo:

2x TASER XREP cartridges. On impact, the forward facing barbed electrodes attach to the body of the target. The energy from the impact breaks a series of fracture pins that release the main chassis of the XREP projectile which remains connected to the nose by a non-conductive tether. The XREP projectile autonomously generates NMI for 20 continuous seconds. As the chassis falls away, six Cholla electrodes automatically deploy to deliver the NMI effect over a greater body mass. It delivers a Neuro Muscular Incapacitation (NMI) bio-effect but can be delivered to a maximum effective range of 100 feet (30.48 meters), combining blunt impact force to form a subtle non-lethal weapon.

2x Incendiary Rounds. These 12 gauge incendiary rounds contain a chemical mixture much like that found in metallic cartridges. When the projectile strikes an object, the compound produces a brilliant flash of light at a temperature in excess of 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit,capable of igniting flammable material.

A 19" long tungsten carbide survival bowie knife on his left hip in a leather sheath. Specifications: 12 inch blade, with a 7-inch hard rubberized grip. 1 5/8th inches wide, 3/16 inches thick. Weight 1 lb.5 oz.

A 26" long expandable tungsten carbide impact baton with a rubber grip in a nylon sheath on his belt, right side. (Reduces to 10 inches when compacted, the two remaining sections that extend are 8.5" long apiece.)

In his small rucksack he carries a black modified full-face tactical style helmet with night vision, thermal and infrared vision enhancers and SAT-TAC communication systems that he uses for night ops. He carries four grenades in his ruck sack.

2x M84 non-lethal stun grenade which are non-lethal, low hazard, non-shrapnel producing explosive device intended to confuse, disorient or momentarily distract potential threat personnel. The device produces a temporary incapacitation to threat personnel or innocent by standers via a loud "Bang". The noise levels will be above 170 decibels within 5 feet of initiation.

**Detonating the M84 Stun Grenade in the presence of natural gas, gasoline, or other highly flammable fumes or materials may cause a serious secondary explosion or fire, resulting in death, or severe injury to friendly forces or unintended victims, as well as serious property damage.

2x CN Triple-Chaser grenades. The Triple-Chaser® is a fast burning pyrotechnic grenade designed for crowd management. It consists of three separate canisters pressed together with separating charges between each. When deployed, the canisters separate and land approximately 20 feet apart allowing increased area coverage in a short period of time. It displaces smoke, CN and CS gasses. Tossing it underhanded delivering the sub-canisters along a line, from left to right, well ahead of the grenadier

He wears the Interceptor Body Armor system (IBA), more specifically the newer Improved Outer Tactical Vest, (IOTV), used with the Enhanced Small Arms Protective Inserts (ESAPIs) ballistic plate series. Two small-arms protective inserts are designed to stop up to three hits from 7.62x51mm NATO M80 ball ammunition, with a muzzle velocity of 2,750 feet per second (838 m/s).


Skills: In addition to basic infantry skills, he has highly refined scouting and patrolling skills. Also, he possesses advanced proficiency in scout swimming, small boat operations, close combat skills, helicopter and submarine insertion/extraction techniques, assault climbing, demolitions, forward observer procedures for supporting arms, initial terminal guidance operations for heliborne assaults, airborne insertion operations, and various waterborne operations, communications, photography, threat weapons and equipment recognition, and various types of point, area, and related necessary overlap of amphibious reconnaissance operations. 

After joining SAD he possesses advanced skills in assault weaponry, breaching demolitions, and close quarter battle skills and raid techniques. And further trained as a static line and freefall parachutists and a qualified combatant diver.

As a Special Activities Division operator he typically carries out deniable covert operations on foreign soil consisting of sabotage, personnel and material recovery, kidnapping, bomb damage assessment, hostage rescue and counter terrorism.

History

History. Much of his background is classified. However what is known is he grew up in Southern California and joined the Marines after high school.

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