UNSC Service Record:
Name: Conway Dalton T
Nicknames: Raze
Rank: Captain
Service Number: D18
Age: 35
Height: 6'7
Weight: 224 Lbs
Appearance: Dalton sports short, unkempt brown hair and sky blue eyes as well as a defined chin. He's a bit on the tall side, which in contrast to his relatives is strange due to them being mostly short. Because he is in peak physical shape, Dalton's muscles are defined and easy to see on him giving him an intimidating look which he uses to his advantage when dealing with new recruits and those muscles aren't just for show, either. He doesn't have any visible scars, the only one anyone has ever seen being one on his chest that goes straight across from his chest because of a near-death experience involving a warthog that detonated.
Specialization: Constant years of war have shaped the man into a proficient killing machine with most forms of weaponry. Though anyone could tell you that he favors close range assualts and explosives more than anything. Assualt/Demolition
Personality: Dalton is a battle-hardened soldier whose top priority is to finish the mission as effectively as possible, with the least amount of casualites, particularly in his own squad. Because he values his own allies lives greatly, most grow to like the soldier. To a fault, he's cocky and sarcastic, which used to get him in trouble until he learned who to keep the comments away from and when they were inappropriate. Some soldiers actually question if the man they see before them is really a captain, but as soon as the lead and plasma start flying through the air, they revoke that comment.
As if another person entirely, Dalton loses his playful attitude in favor of a more serious one, though don't expect him to ditch the jokes completely. He isn't one to lose his head in tough situations, but you can be damn sure he'll try his best to make sure that no man is left behind. The last thing you want to do when you're under his command is disobey an order though. Because this caused a problem long ago which resulted in the death of a few good friends, he doesn't fuck around when giving orders, and he may seem almost bi-polar in the way that he'll snap at you. Of course, he isn't too hypocritacal, and unless he sees a better way to do things (which he'll voice), he won't disobey an order, with rare exceptions.
Military History: As do most men who have lived long enough to reach his rank, Dalton was eager to join the UNSC and protect his home and people, and it helped in basic training that he was a pretty athletic person to begin with. But instead of becoming a normal marine, Dalton was taken at the age of seven and put through the Spartan-III program, which led to him surviving and coming out victorious in various situations no other would have survived. However, his early career was lacking at best, and early on, he wasn't too active.
It wasn't until he was stationed on a planet being glassed by the convenant did was he found doing anything too memorable. During an initial invasion, on his way to support civilian transports, his warthog was disabled by shots to the tire, effectively throwing him and the other occupants out of said vehicle. The ambush that they were led into made the next two hours a living hell, but it also showed just how much Dalton was willing to give to save as much people as he could.
In the beginning, Dalton assessed the situation in a calm manner as the plasma bolts were thrown at him. A canyon pass was their location, and behind them was open space which meant instant death for them if they attemtped to retreat backwards. The path was originally blocked by not one but two Wraiths, the couple being widowed after Dalton had set down a few charges in the area before them. This was also why the still-living Wraith didn't try to rush them and instead used its cannon to fire at them from afar. What the covenant failed to realize is that just above the Wraith laid a rather structurally weak part of the canyon, and 'Raze' as he would know be known as, had a handy-dandy rocket launcher with him at the time.
The trick was: Destroy the Wraith without being sniped and blocking the path at the same time. The reason he didn't simply just shoot at the tank was because by the time the rocket would reach it, it could just back behind part of the environment, and they only had one rocket to fire. So, he decided to take a risky shot (Risky because not only did he expose himself to the snipers that had taken cover behind the Wraith itself, but because if he destroyed too much of the canyon wall, he'd have blocked their path and the trip around was a lot more dangerous.) The end result was a perfect shot not only destroying the enemy armor, but killing the snipers as well. Only a few squads of grunts remained after that, and they weren't too hard to dispose of, or so he thought. A stray plasma grenade caused the warthog that had been disabled to flip, nearly killing Dalton himself and scarring his chest. Well, at least he had something to remember that day by, besides the few medals he was given after the fall of Reach.
Of course, that wasn't all he did. He still went on to assist civilian evacuations and ended up meeting an ODST by the name of 'Buck' at one point before he himself fled the planet. Unfortunately, when they were loading themselves onto their own transport, his CO was knocked unconcious, placing him in command. His first order was to retrieve their CO (who was further up) and fall back so they could escape. The response he received was "Fuck no! I'm getting out of here!" and because the man who fleed after disobeying his order was the closest to the unconcious CO, it was left up to Raze to retrieve him. Sniper fire got the coward, and a few other men were killed providing covering fire for Dalton himself. Because the man wasted valuable time, Dalton does not tolerate disobedience.
Since then, he's been promoted many times, and has a few other feats as well. One of which being when he actually got in a fistfight with a brute. He won, though by no means was he 'unscathed' and was unfit for duty for a couple of weeks due to a broken arm, leg and three ribs as well as major bruising on his face. He'll be the first to tell you that he was lucky his sidearm had the one bullet that injured said brute. Things might've turned out differently had that not been the case.
If you want a war-story, just ask him.
Personal History: Because he was take away at such a young age, there really isn't much 'personal' history about him. He had a fondness for hand-to-hand or close range combat when he was in training, and prefers to avoid any long-range weaponry. It's also rumored that he suffers from PTSD, though nobody's caught him flipping out yet...
Equipment:
Side Arm(s):Combat Knife
M6C "Socom"
Ammo:60/60
Grenades: 5
Other: Detonation Packs