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November 2010, Sanjin, Afghanistan. Members of 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines respond to enemy contact.

 

 

Patrick Rafferty was born on August 15th, 1992, the youngest son of parents William & Janice Rafferty of Vespucci Beach, Los Santos. William worked for the United States Postal Service and Janice as a nurse at Central Los Santos Medical Center in east Strawberry, both worked long hours leaving Patrick and his older brother Mitchell unsupervised during most of the day. By the time they had reached high school, Mitchell had been in and out of juvenile hall several times for assault and drug related charges. Patrick, the more reserved of the two tended to fly with his head low to the ground, avoiding trouble by avoiding his brother. In November of 2009, Patrick elected to join the United States Marine Corps before graduating high school and with his parents permission, shipped to basic in January of the following year. He graduated from his courses and was sent to 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines just in time for a deployment to Sanjin District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

 

Patrick's actions in the month of November during his unit's deployment to Afghanistan earned him the Silver Star and the Purple Heart. Whilst under heavy fire, Patrick evacuated three of his wounded compatriots from an IED kill zone to a position of cover, eventually destroying the machine gun emplacement that had engaged them himself with a shoulder fired AT4. Between September of 2010 and April of 2011, 3/5 would endure 25 KIA and over 200 wounded, with many of those wounded suffering from lost limbs. Patrick EAS'd from the military in 2019, after a nine year tenure. In the time that Patrick was away, his brother Mitchell had developed a reputation. A three striker, Mitchell was serving life in Bolingbroke on gun and meth charges. Patrick moved in to his brothers old apartment in Vespucci Beach and began searching for a job, to no avail and has succumbed to the same vices that have served his brother with a life sentence.

 

 

 

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