I might switch my character around and make him black too. That's mostly because it's a reality of Vietnam; the closer to the front you got, the blacker the faces were.

Edit: Requesting approval on the changes.

[hider=Barnes][color=1a7b30][B]Name:[/b][/color] Anthony Barnes
[color=1a7b30][B]Age:[/b][/color] 19
[color=1a7b30][B]Gender:[/b][/color] Male
[color=1a7b30][B]Rank:[/b][/color] PFC
[color=1a7b30][B]Ethnicity/Nationality:[/b][/color] African-American
 
[color=1a7b30][B]Physical Description:[/b][/color]
[INDENT][img]http://i.imgur.com/VFwOSEJ.jpg?1[/img][/INDENT]
[color=1a7b30][B]Skillset:[/b][/color]
[INDENT]He attended basic training and AIT at Fort Benning and Fort Polk, Louisiana (the infamous "Tigerland") before being deployed to Vietnam. He's about a third way through his tour and has seen some combat so that he's considered a veteran. Favors the shotgun in a fight because he and Derricks had a close encounter once and his M16 jammed; he broke it over the cong's head.

Serves as the assistant machinegunner for PFC Derricks, helping haul the ammo and keep the gun running.

Barnes is particularly notable for having a hell of a throwing arm.[/INDENT]
[color=1a7b30][B]History:[/b][/color]
[INDENT]From the Bronx, his father is a cabbie and he was trying to get into CUNY (but didn't have enough money) to get in before the draft got him; as he likes to put it, "The army was there with a stage hook, waitin' for my black ass to graduate from high school."  

He was drafted in late 1966 and put through Benning, then Polk, and then sent to Vietnam as part of the First Cavalry Division.
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[color=1a7b30][B]Equipment:[/b] [/color]
[list][*]Winchester 1200 Shotgun, loaded with #4 buckshot (standard issue ammo in the era)
[*] Jungle Fatigues, boots, and so forth. Threadbare looking because Vietnam is hot and humid and quickly wears down the clothing. His have some holes in them.
[*] GI towel, extra pair of socks, foot powder and so forth. A lot of this goes in a buttpack.
[*] M1956 suspenders/web gear with two canteens and other sundries.
[*] Steel pot with cover, "Too Young To Vote; Ain't Too Young To Die" written on cover
[*] Three M26 frags
[*] M1942 Machete
[*] E-tool, canteens,
[*] Buddhist prayer beads. Not precisely frowned upon, but not entirely considered on the up and up by more officious officers.
[*] Extra ammo for the pig.
[*] Tape player and a fine collection of Motown and, gold in Vietnam, James Brown's latest stuff, including the funky "Cold Sweat." Prized possession.
[*] Other equipment as necessary. I'm positive I left some out.
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