Andrew Walters

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Andrew Walters

 

Background

 

Andrew Walters was born on May 2nd, 1992, in Olympia, Washington. Birthed and raised by his parents Georgia and Terry Walters, Andrew was introduced to a thriving and vibrant world. He enjoyed the benefits of the city's stable workforce, engaged and educated community, and a well-supported school system. With what seemed like the perfect environment to grow up in, young Andrew took advantage of the education system in order to enact on his grades. Like many teenagers, Andrew didn't know what path to guide his life towards, one year it was engineering, next year it was music. Although he showed a strong interest in many different areas, it was short-lived and financially draining for his parents to keep providing equipment and additional support. Eventually, this left his parents to lose hope that he'd hang onto a hobby for much longer than it's worth, limiting Andrew's exploration for new experiences. Throughout his high school years, he found himself forming a modest personality, it wasn't anything admirable among the popular clique in high school, but, it was enough to find himself leading a small athletic group of friends and people alike. 

 

With his unique personality at his disposal, Andrew found himself exploring the use of kindness, modesty and family orientation on an everyday basis. It wasn't long before the heckling and playful peer pressure from family members helped him find romance, but, with studies being on the last page of the chapter, it was as short-lived, much like his hobbies. Upon finishing high school, Andrew and his girlfriend split up at the age of eighteen (18). After a few months of floating around aimlessly through job opportunities, he feared he would lose his athletic group of friends, so he dedicated more time towards physical activities such as cross country, swimming and basketball. 

 

 

Having devoted his late teenage years to sports, a time had come where Andrew built up enough courage to look past the university recommendations from both family and teachers in-touch. Like many uncertain young adults, he found himself surfing the web for military service opportunities, still unsure of which seal he would blindly pick. At the age of nineteen (19), Andrew had skimmed through enough research to enlist into the United States Armed Forces branch, United States Coast Guard (USCG). Whilst still accounted as a military service branch during a conflict, it would operate under the Department of Homeland Security during peacetime, with a maritime law enforcement mission. During the start of 2011, he faced the decision to part ways with the comfort of living with his parents in Olympia, moving down into the city of Seattle where he would be based for basic training. It may have very well been the toughest decision of his life, leaving behind his loved ones and any relationships he developed throughout his school years.

 

 

With a fresh and burning passion to start a career, Andrew's character was put to a constant test from the extremely high-attrition training courses, leaving his unique personality to slowly weaken and adapt to the position he had always dreamed for. It wasn't long after basic training that he confirmed his future position in the crew. To become a gunner's mate, he wasted little time in military courses, perhaps not earning him a commendation, but certainly the respect of his much older crew. This was the time in his life where Andrew would still be capable to reminisce on the nights he would spend time playing basketball with his high school friends, taking his girlfriend out on movie nights and spending social time in the comfort of his parents. With dedicated training of multiple weeks for both the Boarding Team Member and Basic Boarding Officer, he soon grew to cherish and trust the loyalty between his crew members, completely forgetting that he did, in fact, have free time to form a social life.

 

 

At the end of 2011, Andrew had used all his free time to start the training course on the MK 38 MOD I 25MM Machine Gun System. During this time, Andrew was once again offered to take up a university degree but his perseverance to train for the Coast Guard was a much stronger will than to split his time evenly. With no reflection on how it may damage his mental health in the future, sacrificing his free time had created the illusion that Andrew would become one of the longest-serving Coast Guards in District 13.

 

Having spent the remaining years from 2013, Andrew served in the U.S Coast Guard for an additional 5 years. He had climbed through the ladder of petty officer ranks, eventually reaching the rank of Chief Petty Officer (CPO) which allowed him to train and mentor other servicemen and women in their specialisation, including newly-commissioned junior officers.

 

Due to the Government Shut Down in December of 2018, all 42,000 active-duty coast guards including Andrew were set to work without pay whilst the other branches of the military service were to receive checks. Additionally, the government failed to send their first paycheck after the shutdown was lifted, slowly starting to warp the purpose of his service as nothing more than a joke to the government. With the support of communities and banks desperately coming to aid as the Coast Guards came to theirs, Andrew called his time with the branch and was discharged honourably with a reserve obligation until 2020.

 

 

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I would love to receive some feedback whether it's to praise or criticize the story's structure and the plain vocabulary. As long as, it helps me improve for my next character because I don't make stories often enough, let alone biographies from scratch. Sorry if it's hard to read but this is here as a foundation for my character.

 

I don't plan on regularly updating the character story with screenshots and logs, however, I feel like there may be someone who could use this as a good or bad example to develop their own character story. I have prepared a few resources as lore items from his background, things such as a diary, discharge forms and stories about his active-duty missions.

 

 

Edited May 8, 2019 by Law

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