Character: Dartavian Blackwood

Nationality: American

Gender: Male

Age: 52

Service Branch: US ARMY  INFANTRY

Weight: 6 foot 200 pounds

Throw Range: 28M

Iniative: Six

Rank: Command Sergeant Major

Rads:  48

Load: 36Kg / 80 pounds

 

Description: Leaning back against a pile that consists of  a rucksack, duffel bag, LBE with butt pack, kevlar vest and helmet lays a tired American Senior NCO puffing a large Cuban Cigar with a cold can of Budwiser. The 5th Divsion is gone so he salutes his former unit with his last good stogie and cold brew. “Damn you Ivan again,” he mutters.

Name tapes: Blackwod US Army; Black Hair with a touch of grey, but piercing brown eyes are alert and roving. His collar proclaims the rank of Command Sergeant Major.

BDU cammo fatiges covered with black subdued patches to include 5th Inf (M) as well as Ranger and Mountain Qualification Tabs on the left sleeve, an 82nd ABN Combat Patch on the right, above one pocket is Master Blaster Jump Wings, Air Assualt Wings, CIB with Star, below the other pocket is the RM CDO Sniper badge. He wears a Black Ranger Beret with a SAS Crest and SF Flash. Old style Vietnam era jungle boots complete the mixxed uniform. In his right hand he loosely holds an M21 Sniper Rifle, on the left hip a Desert Eagle .50 cal pistol in a British Browning Holster, his right hip has a regulation M1911 .45 automatic in service holster. Nearby stretched out next to him, equally alert is a small black and tan dachshund

 

BASIC ATTRIBUTES and SKILLS

Strength 4 +3 Seven

Small Arms: Rifle 7/14, Pistol 3/10; Heavy Weapons 4/11; Melee Combat: Unarmed 7/14, Armed 3/10; Thrown Weapon 1/8

Agility 8 -1 Seven

Stealth 6/13, Wheeled Vehicle 3/10; Snow Skiing 1/8

Constitution 4 +1 Five

Parachute 4/9, Mountaineering 2/7, Swimming 1/6

Charisma 8 Eight

Language: English 10/18, German 10/18, Russian 4/12 Disguise, 2/10; Leader 1/9; Instruction 1/9; Persuasion 1/9

Intelligence 5 Five

Observation 5/10, Navigation 5/10, Tracking 2/7

Education 4 Three

Medical 1/4

Backgroud Skills

Language English 10

Language German 10

Language Russian 2

Melee Combat Unarmed 2

Trackling 2

Wheeled Vehicle 2

 

Born in Florida he was a service brat who lived all over the world. His mother was a pretty young fraliene that his father had met and married during his first overseas tour. Dartavian learned to speak fluent German during several tours in Germany and frequent family visits. He studied Russian in high school. His recreational interests included martial arts and hunting. His father is a retired Colonel. Both his parents were killed in the early nucleur exchanges when their beach house resort was caught in the blast area of a nuke that took out Cape Canaveral.

 

***First Term US Army Basic and Airborne (17-20) 1965-68

First Tour in Vietnam, ‘Operation Junction City’ Combat Drop, Katum Hamlet , 22 Feb 67, 2nd /503rd Abn 173rd BDE; Thirty days short at the start of the Tet Offensive, Jan 68, 3rd BDE 82nd Airborne Division. Promoted to Sergeant, Awarded Combat Jump Wings, Combat Infantryman’s Badge, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart .

Basic Training                           Airborne                                    NCO

Small Arms Rifle 1                    Small Arms Rifle 1                     Leadership 1

Melee Combat Unarmed 1       Melee Combat Unarmed 1         Instruction 1

Swimming 1                             Parachute 1 (Basic Abn)             Persuasion 1

Wheeled Vehicle 1                   Navigation 1

Thrown Weapon 1

Secondary Activity: Weight Lifting +1 Str

Contact: Miltary Level II

***Second Term Special Forces (21-24) !969-72

Returned to the States after Tet ,attended Special Forces Training, Second Tour Vietnam with a 5th SF Group A-Team, returned to the states and was selected and participated in the Son Toy Raid. Promoted to Staff Sergeant, Awarded Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and Silver Star

Small Arms Rifle 1 Melee Combat Unarmed 1 Heavy Weapons 1 Parachute 1 (Adv Abn HALO)

Secondary Activity: Weight Lifting +1 Str

Contact: Intelligence Level 0 & IV

***Third Term Special Forces (25-28) 1973-76

Assigned to Special Forces Detachment Berlin, Berlin Brigade. Exchange program allowed training with the UK SAS and Royal Marine Commando’s Sniper School. Promoted to Sergeant First Class, Awarded Tan SAS Beret, British Jump Wings, and RM CDO Sniper Badge

Language Russian 2 Observation 1 Stealth 1

Secondary Activity: Jogging +1 Con

Contact: Foreign Military Level III Military Level II

***Fourth Term Counterterrorist (29-32) 1977-80

Selected for assignment to Special Forces Detachment Delta ‘Delta Force’ participated in Operation Eagle Claw the Iran Rescue Mission. During 1978, while on leave, he is alleged to have made a Mercenary Combat Drop, in Africa, near Kalima, with a unit known as the ‘Wild Geese.’ Passed over for Promotion.

Small Arms Rifle 2 Melee Combat Unarmed 1 Parachute 1 (Adv Abn LALO)

Secondary Activity: Weight Lifting +1 Str

Contact: Foreign Military Level IV Miltary Level 0

***Fifth Term Ranger (33-36) 1981-84

After three years with USAEUR he returned home to attend Ranger School, assigned 1st Bn / 75th Inf Rng Abn, Grenada Combat Drop Point Salines Airport , 25 Oct 83. Passed over for Promotion, Awarded Oak Leaf Cluster to Silver Star. Married Captain Nene Romanova a USAF C-130 Pilot assigned to Pope AFB, near Fort Bragg, in 1980, their daughter Linna is born a year later.

Small Arms Rifle 1 Melee Combat Unarmed 1 Stealth 1 parachute 1 (Adv Abn Smoke Jumper)

Secondary Activity: Neighborhood Theater Disguise 1

Contact: Foreign Military Level 0

***Sixth Term Mountain Infantry (37-40) 1985-88

Selected as part of the cadre to reactivate the 10th Mountain Infantry Division. Promoted to First Sergeant.

Small Arms Rifle 1 Mountaineering 2 Snow Skiing 1

Secondary Activity: Neighborhood Theater Disguise 1

Contact: Foreign Military Level I

***Seventh Term Airborne (41-44) 1989-92

Volunteered for service during Desert Shield/Storm and received orders to the 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile) Passed over for promotion, Awarded Air Assault Wings, and Star to his Combat Infantryman’s Badge.

Stealth 3

Secondary Activity: Neighborhood Theater Disguise 1

Contact: Military Level II

***Eighth Term (45-48) Ranger 1993-96

The start of World War III saw Blackwood back at home with Rangers at Fort Stewart

He finally gained his long coveted promotion to Sergeant Major and assumed the position of Sergeant Major 1st Bn / 75th Inf Rng Abn

Observation 4

Secondary Activity: CPR and First Aid Medical 1

Contact:  Military Level IV

***Ninth Term (49-52) Ranger 1997-2000

The Rangers deployed to the Shiekdom of RDF in 1997 and raised havoc during rear area raids against the Russian 103rd, 104th and 105th Desantniki (ABN) Divisions. The 103rd being Afganastan Vets proved to be very tough customers. During this time double disaster struck: his wife was shot down over Norway near the Kola Peninsula while flying a SEAL Insertion Covert Ops Mission; and is presumed dead. His daughter enlisted, in the Army at 17 and qualified for flight school. Two years later she was a Blackhawk Helicopter Pilot. CWO2 Linna Blackwood was shot down and listed as missing in action near Warsaw in 1999 during a Medevac Flight. Dartavian almost went over the edge at this point volunteering for only the most dangerous operations. Finally badly wounded on a strike that took out 45th Army HQ, his recommendation for the Distingushed Service Cross is still pending. He refused a Battlefield Commission. Recovering from his wounds and with a appointment to Command Sergeant Major he pulled every string he could to get assigned to Europe and ended up with orders as the CSM 5th Inf Div(M). He has hopes of finding any information he can about the fate of his wife and daughter.

 Heavy Weapons 3 Stealth 1 Navigation 4

Contact: Foreign Miltary Level II

 

Contacts: {Level / Length of Time Acquainted / Brief Description}

Miltary Level II 32 years Vietnam Buddy

Intelligence Level IV 28 years CIA Operative connected with Son Toy Raid

Intelligence Level 0 28 years Attractive Secretary in Military Intelligence

Foreign Military Level III 24 years Senior NCO in the British SAS

Military Level II 24 years US Garrison Commander Spandau Prison Berlin

Military Level 0 20 Years MP at Fort Bragg

Foreign Military Level IV 16 years Colonel Alex Faulkner British Mercenary

Foreign Military Level 0 16 years  English Miltary Chaplain who performed the wedding

Foreign Military Level I 12 years German NCO Gebirgsjaeger (Mtn Troops)

Miltary Level II 8 years Company Commander during Desert Storm

Miltary Level IV  4 years General Samual Maclean USMC CENCOM

Foreign Military Level II recent  NCO 2nd LE Para Rgt (2nd Foreign Legion Para)

 

Equipment: [ 9 terms x 5000 = $45,000 ]

 

Fatiges X10                                         Frag Grenades x 6

Kevlar Helmet                                     Smoke Grenades x 2     

Kevlar Vest                                         Desert Eagle .50 Action Express

Pack and Duffel Bag                            3 full 7 round mags and 29 loose .50 SLAP rounds

Shelter Half X2

Gas Mask

Combat Webbing

Sleeping Bag

Flaslight

Personal Medical Kit

Thermal Fatiges

 

M21 Sniper Rifle with silencer/suppressor and starlight scope

Bayonet

6 full 20 round mags plus 180 loose rounds of 7.62mmN

.45 caliber M1911 Colt Commander with silencer/suppressor

3 full 7 magzines