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[b][u]Name:[/u][/b] Wesley Durant
[u][b]Age:[/b][/u] 28
[b][u]Gender:[/u][/b] Male
[u][b]Nationality:[/b][/u] American
[b][u]Appearance:[/u][/b] [img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ed/55/7a/ed557a6319f82a59578706609661b8f2.jpg[/img]
Stands at 5’10”.
[b][u]Personality:[/u][/b] Persistence is the name of Wesley’s game. First and foremost, he is the type of person to seize opportunities, rather than waiting and guessing. Despite what some blackshoe non-flyers would claim, Wes isn’t the reckless type. Though he might be just a little bit of a braggart, and spends a little too much time in the Officer’s Club.
[b][u]Personal History:[/u][/b] Wesley was born in Medford on Long Island, NY in the dead middle of the 2000s. His father was a commercial pilot for Delta and his mother a nurse in nearby New York City. Growing up, Wesley often spent days when he wasn’t at school alone at home. Inevitably falling into obsessions as children do, Wesley became infatuated with the prospect of flying. First, for the Air Force. Then, as he got older, the Navy. As wars began sparking world-wide, he took his chance at 18 and lobbied for a spot at the Naval Officer Candidate School. Completing it narrowly, he entered flight school at the age of 20 and began to excel. Until the Cataclysm happened. Immediately, pilots became a scarce and absolutely necessary resource. Rushed to an airframe, Wes’s first few years were primarily flying in conjunction with NOAA craft, as superstorms spun up as a result of the impact. It wasn’t until the rise of Elysium occurred that Wesley saw proper combat, in a strike by Elysium forces to disrupt PGA naval superiority in the North Atlantic. Flying in a fleet defender role as his craft dictated, he was no ace-in-a-day, but still achieved three splashes in one engagement. For his achievement he earned a brevet promotion and assignment to Shadow Flight.
[b][u]Aircraft:[/u][/b] [hider=F-14X]
The F-14, formerly retired by the US Navy due to age and squabbles over unit cost, was one of the first craft considered to be reintroduced during the wars of the 2020s and the Cataclysm of 2028. With airframes recovered from the Boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, they were hastily upgraded into a F-14G variant which was to take up the role as Fleet Defender once again, the area where F/A-18s seemed to be lacking as dedicated multiroles. Given new avionics systems and modern radar equipment, their effectiveness was middling in the grand scheme, and often they were too few in number to make any sort of difference one way or the other. It was not until post-Cataclysm that the F-14 would get its due, as AdTech revitalized the costly program to modernize the F-14 further. New engines, even better avionics, compatibility with a new array of long-range air-to-air missiles earmarked the F-14X program.

Of these, Wesley flies one of the prototypes in the field currently, equipped as well with an advanced autonomous radar intercept computer courtesy of his Shadow Flight membership, which eliminates the need for a RIO sitting in his rear seat. Said RIO-computer can make target callouts, autonomously track radar signals, and perform electronic countermeasure functions with minimal input necessary.[/hider]
[b][u]Personal Weapons & Equipment:[/u][/b][list]
[*]HK416C Carbine
[*]M18 (SIG P230 Compact) Pistol
[*]Standard AdTech Flight/Combat Garments + HMD-capable Helmet
[*]OKC Pilot Survival Knife[/list]
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