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Name: Abdulahim "Abdi" Hassan
Occupation: Army Marksman
Bio: Abdi Hassan was born to a family of accountants in Berbera in Somalia, Earth - the youngest of three boys (the elder two being twins four years older than him.) From an early age he learned to sail alongside his father in the calm seas off the coast, developing an affinity for the activity that would continue into his later years. By the age of ten, his parents had managed to settle themselves in well in the Berbera financial community, eventually owning a modest house on the ocean and allowing Abdi to go to one of the better schools in the city. With all signs pointing for Abdi to go into college and study business like his parents, he managed to perform well in his mathematics and management classes until his eldest brothers had both been conscripted and sent alongside a MEU onboard a destroyer somewhere in the galaxy. With the sudden realization that the government needed more men, Abdi began to forget about finance and started to focus more on current events. He began to realize that he was going to be conscripted sooner or later.

When he finished his schooling, Abdi's 18th birthday would mark the beginning of his entrance into the conscription lottery. Not satisfied to wait until his number was called, Abdi convinced his parents to let him enlist on his own - after all, the rumor was that volunteers would get better privileges and a career path waiting for them. And so the day after his birthday, he walked down to the recruiter's office in the city and wrote his name down. A week later, he was flown to Johannesburg for Basic Recruit Training (Africa.) There, Abdi managed to perform to the standards expected of him, but with one exception: he was a born marksman. Passing the test with flying colors, Abdi was marked for Advanced Combat Designated Marksman School, where he spent a week after Infantry School learning to operate the UNSC's M392 DMR rifle, with which he would be equipped with during his stint as squad marksman. In addition, familiarity with the BR55 rifle used by the Marine Corps was taught. With that training, he was shipped to Reach to reinforce the military forces there.

For two years, he drilled and trained for combat, but nothing happened. He was promoted to Specialist in the Spring of 2552, and continued his routine of training for a war that would certainly be coming. Despite his inability to leave the planet, he still maintained contact with his family and his brothers - who turned out to be guarding fuel refineries around a classified gas giant - and believed that maybe the war wasn't so desperate after all. At the time of the invasion, he was assigned to the 41st Reach BCT stationed at Ft. Árpád just kilometers east of New Alexandria.