[@Ithradine] Alright, got my guy cranked out finally.

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Name: Ansgar Staudinger

Age: 32

Nationality: Germany

Base of Operations: Europe

Bio: 
Ansgar was raised as part of a rather diverse family. From doctors to street rats, one could find the vast majority of the spectrum of the average people within Germany within his family. Ansgar himself was part of a rougher part of the family, living in a machinist shop working on everything from military equipment, when contracted out, to farming equipment and your every day family vehicles. When he wasn't working in the family shop, he was picking fights in the streets of his hometown. As such, he ended up having two options when he came of age, join the military and straighten out his life, or stick to his current path and end up in jail. It really wasn't much of a choice, and off he went to the German military, enlisting into the German Navy as a member of the MSK, or in English, the Naval Protection Force. However, as soon as Ansgar could, he was submitting paperwork to undergo screening for the German Kampfschwimmer, Combat Swimmers or commonly spoken as German frogmen. While the requirements and training were tough and broke a great deal of fellow applicants, Ansgar stuck to his determination to not give up and made his way into the ranks of the KSM.

Ansgar's first few missions were resounding successes, whether he was deploying from the tubes of a submarine to parachuting into urban combat situations, his unit was utilized as a recon element, heading into places or boarding questionable ships to figure out what was going on. However, a fateful boarding action would put him in contact with an organization that seemed impossible. A Naval vessel carrying the seized wreckage of a UFO, the vessel in question operated by Thin Men and guarded by stashed away aliens that survived the crash, and the vessel got flagged for intridiction before XCOM could intervene. The resulting boarding action was a slaughter, the KSM unprepared for the advanced weapons and tactics employed by the aliens. Most of the Commandos were dead before the XCOM forces arrived to take over, finding Ansgar barricaded into the bridge, several dead aliens in front of where they had punched holes into the cover and had gotten a shotgun blast in the chest for their troubles. His actions had prevented the aliens from bringing the ship out of range of XCOM assets, obviously unintentional as it was, by preventing them from getting into the bridge and changing course. Between the first contact performance by Ansgar and the resulting information from the raid, Ansgar was given an option, the alternative not even bothered with. Join with XCOM, as a Europe based team, the Sea Hounds, needed a fresh body. Ansgar agreed without delay, seeing the intermingled dead of aliens and his dead comrades as proof enough these things needed to be stopped.

Appearance: 
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Casual Wear:
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Combat Wear:
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Class: Ranger

Squad: Sea Hounds - Urban and Maritime Combat Experts based out of Europe, utilized in Recon and Vanguard actions.

Rank: Squaddie

Utility Skills/Strengths: 
Expert in CQC/Close Range Engagements
Trained and Skilled in Aquatic/Swamp Environments
Affinity for Dark/Low Light operations

Personal Skills: (Any specific skills that don't necessarily have an application in combat)
Adaptable - Capable of rapidly shifting to changing conditions
Task Orientated - Always working outside of sleep or other necessities for living

Weaknesses: 
Adrenaline Junkie - Enjoys the rush of a fight
Experimental - Unusually interested in cutting edge application of newfound tactics and equipment

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