**Name:** Marlena Abdelkadaar **Age:** 26 **Gender:** F **Ethnicity:** Algerian

**Former Unit:** Algerian Special Intervention Group (GIS)

**Role:** Rifleman (cross-trained: Medic)

**Physical Description:**
Short and sturdy build for a light frame. Dark long hair bound at the back and tucked, olive skin and fair features with hints of fatigue. Often wears a face-cover of some sort, citing either modesty or as a measure to keep the debris out of her eyes depending on who is doing the asking.

**Skillset:**
Precision-Driving (off-road and in congested streets)
Interrogation
Small-unit raids
Radar-Survaillence
Hand to Hand
Parachuting/rigging
Mountaineering

**History:**
Joined the Algerian National Police in June of '08 and had the luck to quickly find herself more often behind the wheel of an armored personnel carrier than a desk. And managed to distinguish herself when after her gunner was struck down by a sniper's bullet at the start of a firefight, she chose to man the vehicle's gun to cover her squad's evacuation atop another APC rather than seek shelter herself even as her own APC began to burn from several rocket-attacks. This put her on-track to their newly-formed counter-terrorist unit.

Helped train Mali soldiers in counter-insurgency operations sometime in early 2012 and later took part on a follow-up raid of the 2013 Amenas hostage rescue attempt which ended poorly. Due to the massive political backlash of so many of the hostages dying and insinuations that the GIS was actively executing any survivors, Marlena was dropped from the program.

**Equipment:**
Head/Face: Pressed-fiberglass copy of SPECTRA-helmet, shmagh
Body/attire: Grey-green Densin-smock.

*Initial Load Bearing Equipment:* Ex-Soviet 'Lifchik' or 'chest-rig' to hold a spare magazines for her Saiga and four spare mags for the HK-416. One grenade-pouch hold two TK-2 tourniquets and an iFAK while the others carry their respective grenades and flares, 50 loose shotgun shells in wrap-around VOG-25 pouches. One flare-loop is utilized to hold bayonet. behind the Lifchick there have been pouches sewn-in to hold AR-500 plate (curved), a back-plate may also be fastened to the rear.

*Load Bearing Equipment (Dune):*

*Belt:* Infantry-shovel and canteen/mess-kit, also present are drum-mags for the Saiga and/or HK416, 20 and 50 rds respectively. On rear of belt is a Infantry Shovel, light, a 50cm long weapon of glorious mission.

-Pack: 500 rounds of 5.56x45mm on stripper-clips and bundled to prevent rattling, 100 shotgun rounds of various sorts (buck, slug, frag [bounding] and HEI), Extra socks and foot-wraps, spare BDU-smock, rations (three two-kilogram UAE style ration-packets, stripped down from their 12 component meals and re-packaged back into 6 ziplock-bags).

-Primary Weapon - Scoped (4x32, sun-shade/IR-lens option) HK-416, 14.6" barrel (suppressed) with IR laser pointer/illuminator and flashlight.

-Sidearm - Siaga 12K, bayonet lug retained.

-Grenades - Two RGD-5 frags, two 37mm flares, a Stun-grenade, and two M72A7 rockets.

**Optional:** Squad medkit.