[hider=John Tuttle] [center][img]https://www.warhistoryonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/vietnam-tunnel-rats-2.png[/img][/center] [b]NAME:[/b] Special Agent John Tuttle Aka: Mr Brian Johnson Aka: Mr Thomas Burke Aka: Mr Henry Travis Aka: JT [b]AGE:[/b] 40 [b]OCCUPATION[/b] Special Agent - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms - Undercover Investigator [b]ROLE:[/b] Tuttle is considered one of the finest under cover investigators on the Southern seaboard. His current role is to quietly enter an area and build a lifestyle profile on the region and its major players. This is not an enforcement role at the moment, there are no search warrants or doors kicks here. His current assignment is to begin quietly identifying cartel links and agents in Mississippi. His position is a lonely and dangerous one as he operates solo with very little oversight. [b]PUBLIC GOALS:[/b] It is well known that Tuttle has little interest in "driving a desk". He has found a niche as an expert investigator and surveillance operator; a role he has embraced, relishing the skillset he has learned. [b]PRIVATE GOALS:[/b] Tuttle intends to work until he is forced to retire. The pursuit of the evil and illegal in the world was something he had badly needed following the death of his family. In the words of Edmund Burke - “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” [b]SUPPORTING CAST:[/b] N/A [b]PERSONAL HISTORY:[/b] John Tuttle was born in Boston, attended high school, played sports, and generally had the ideal upbringing of any white middle class kid. He might never have left the city if his late teens hadn't been interrupted by the Korean War. Always one with a strong sense of right and wrong, he joined the US Military and ended up posted to a MASH unit where he served as an ambulance driver and medic. Following the end of the war he returned home and married Maria Gomez, a local latin beauty, and they had a little girl, Isabella, who became everything to the couple. Maria worked three jobs to make ends meet while he attended law school, making it to the bar in 1959. In 1960 he was drafted and offered a position in a JAG unit. He turned it down in favour of joining the engineering core. In 1962 when he was approached by his Colonel who had noted Tuttles smaller physic and tenacious attitude. The Colonel did not want Tuttle to serve as an engineer, but rather to join the infamous Tunnel Rats; infantrymen from Australia and the United States who cleared and destroyed enemy tunnel complexes. Two years of fighting and killing in the dark - literal life and death struggles thirty feet beneath the surface of the earth - brought Tuttle home a quieter and more thoughtful man. He had hoped the worst of his troubles where behind him until he found out his daughter was dating a real handsome young latino fella, Jose Ramos, that gave Tuttle the creeps. He tried to get his daughter away from Ramos only to have her rebel against his harsh rules and run away. Six months later, Tuttle stood over the battered and bruised body of his only child in the morgue of the New Orleans Police Department. It was clear she'd been raped with some sort of object before her throat was cut and body dumped in the swamp. Tuttle approached the detective who handling the case and quietly asked who had done it. The detective had regretfully told the father in front of him that he was not allowed to give that information. Tuttle had reached into his pocket and placed two bronze stars and the silver star on the startled law mans desk; he said he had earned the right to know. The detective was able to give him one name, Ramos. Tuttle made careful enquires about the Ramos family and learned that they operated a prostitution ring in the south, primarily with girls brought in from Panama. He took his time, made his plans, and when the timing was right, he flew to Panama and executed Jose Ramos, his two brothers, and three bodyguards outside of a downtown nightclub. He returned to the states to discover that Maria, distraught over Isabellas death, had taken her own life. Tuttle himself was sitting his dining room table staring at a loaded pistol and a glass of whiskey when a knock sounded at the door. He had opened the screen to find two men in suits who identified themselves as agents of the FBI. They started by telling Tuttle they knew about his daughter, then began to lay before him a curious story that the three Ramos brothers had been slaughtered quite recently in Panama by persons "unknown". The conversation continued late into the night and by the next morning, Tuttle was en-route to the headquarters of the FBI to sign on as their newest special agent. Tuttle is driven by the words of Edmund Burke, proving proved to be highly skilled operative, building a reputation for hard work, adaptability, and reliability. He was assigned to the New Orleans Office in 1970 to assist in building a portfolio on those involved in trying to move cocaine into the United States, primarily by boat or air. [b]Notes:[/b] Tuttle speaks English, Spanish, and some Vietnamese.[/hider]