Name: Daniel "Danny" Shattah
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/Nationality: Israeli (Polish Ashkenazi/Lebanese Mizrahi)
Former Unit: Shamal Rishon (Staff Sergeant/NATO OR-6) in the IDF, part of Sayeret Matkal, the Israeli General Staff Special Reconnaissance Unit
Prior Service units:- Sayeret Matkal Selection
- Battalion 101 (Tironut/Basic Training), Parachute Brigade, Turai (Private) OR-2 Grade
Role: Rifleman
Physical Description:Average height, with strong shoulders and upper body. He has olive skin and features that would let him pass for Arab easily; deep-set dark eyes, dark hair long on the top and short on the sides, but not American/European military high and tight (Israelis aren't known for it) and no tattoos. He rocks a full beard but keeps it well-trimmed. Off work, he prefers a pair of fairly skinny jeans, an untucked v-neck long-sleeved shirt or button-down shirt and a pair of 'Space Oakleys.' His shoes tend to be leather jobs that he can wear with bare feet. Notably and keeping in with Sayeret Matkal tradition, no display of unit paraphenalia.
In Centurion, where people are loud and proud about their unit origins, the Israelis keep it kind of mum. Some people wear combat patches on their uniforms in imitation of the American practice to let people know where they are coming from; Israeli guys coming from the Sayeret units do not in keeping with their peculiar tradition of institutional secrecy. It fools the uninitiated, of course, and few others.. In situations where headdress is required besides a combat helmet, Danny does have a red beret, no unit insignia, but rarely to never has to wear it. He keeps the faith.
- Operator with Sayeret Matkal, the Israeli general staff unit tasked with special reconnaissance missions. Primarily, land-based and air-deployed, but maritime operations have been done as well.
- Demolition training
- CQB/Counterterror
- Advanced Parachute school
- Land Navigation
- Small Unit Tactics
- Reconnaissance
- Cross training: SEAL Team 3, Coronado, CA. SCUBA, Hydrographic Survey, Small Boat handling, Underwater Demo.
- Krav Maga, expert
- Score 100 on the Bar Or, the IDF military fitness test
- Familiarity with IDF, East Bloc and NATO standard weaponry, particularly the M4 platform, the Kalashnikov, and IDF issue weaponry. Centurion used him as an instructor on the Negev during the familiarization in Guyana.
- Speaks Arabic, English, Hebrew, smattering of French picked up in Guyana.
History:Born on Gadot, a Kibbutz in the Hula valley on the Lebanese border to Asher, whose family are Lebanese Jews that were pushed out of Lebanon after 1967 and Ruth, from kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot and whose father, Mordechai, is a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and a veteran of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Her mother is of French Jewish ancestry and fought alongside her father in the 1948 war. Daniel was raised in a communal environment toward the end of the Kibbutz movement, as his father was a university professor while his mother, Ruth, who was educated in computer sciences, became part of the kibbutz-sponsored computer company, which managed to be successful. He was raised in comfortable circumstances as 'differential wages' were instituted.
At age 17 in 2005, he joined the IDF as part of the Parachute Brigade, the Israeli army's premiere conventional infantry organization whose basic training is the toughest in the IDF. It is typical entry point into special operations units, who use a different process for selecting their members than other militaries, who often want prior experience first and foremost. He would have joined whichever of the best units held Selection first, and that happened to be Sayeret Matkal, the IDF's Military Intelligence Special Operations Unit.
With Sayeret Matkal, he served in the 2006 Lebanon War, and was part of a number of reconnaissance operations operations into Syria on behalf of the IDF as well as some direct action, though the typical operation involved designating targets for the IAF in Syria.
During this time, circa 2010, he married one Naomi Yadin, had two daughters, Adara and Rivka, and then found himself divorced by the end of 2015. He spent two years out of the IDF (resigning active duty, but continuing on as a reservist in a failed attempt to keep his marriage going) working as a networking and IT specialist in Tel Aviv when he heard about Centurion's offer. During French Guyana, he served as a trainer specifically for familiarizing people on the Negev LMG. He currently operates as part of Riddler's fireteam as a rifleman.
Psychological Profile:Daniel's magnetic north was disrupted by his divorce from his wife (and her rapid remarriage, with his kids). At first, he was somewhat okay with it, but then as the reality set in, it started to rankle on him. Centurion offered a way out of the spiral of his life and a change from things – how big a change, he didn't realize. Daniel is not naturally a talkative person, and he is not always patient with people who do not keep up. Given the chance to argue, he will, with much passion, but not much grudge in most casual conversation; playing the Devil's advocate comes naturally to him. Given a competent leader, he is a disciplined and effective soldier, but he is opinionated and informal in the Israeli manner; it’s said that if you’re serving in a company in the IDF, you will be calling the Captain by first name within a month. That’s not how the rest of the world does it, but the Israelis get along just fine with their more egalitarian outlook. Of course, Israeli officers come from the ranks, not an academy.
Equipment:- Among his personal possessions include an iPhone, which still works as a music player even if its communications functions no longer are effective. More importantly, to much of the rest of Centurion, he has a laptop and a several TB in various drives of all sorts of music and video media that can be uploaded onto other people's devices.
- Head/Face: Ballistic helmet, high cut, with at least one headphone attached, NVG's attached and dust/sand goggles attached just in case. There are two mounting points for his flashlight, if he cares to attach it thus and for a camera, just in case. He doesn't do baclavas, but he does wear camouflaged netting around his neck to help keep things from chafing, which can be used to cover up his face and head in the sun if necessary. He also has his 'Space Oakleys' - The Grathik paid a lot for a manufacturing license so they could put the logo on legally.
- Body: Combat shirt and fatigue pants, as well as a Grathik-manufactured armored vest that is being issued to all the human troops; it resembles Dragonskin but it's made from different materials. His vest has pouches attached for twelve 5.56mm magazines, a hydration system, weapon cleaning kit and various other miscellaneous equipment including a dive knife and multi-tool, maps, pens and so forth. A belt with a buttpack containing a first aid kit (with not one, but two tourniquet kits), survival gear, a sheathed combat knife, as well as a folding knife of the same make and a very bright flashlight – the kind that has protrusions on the head to allow for glass-breaking. He also has a pair of bolt cutters and a good digital camera. Wrist-mounted compass and dive watch – expensive, solar powered and pretty damned nice. Mechanix gloves, classic.
- Assault boots, low-cut, non slip soles. Canteen pouch to hold expended magazines.
- Pack: Extra food, clothing, empty magazines, poncho, liner, etc, etc. Gav also has a demo kit. Duct tape, electrical tape.
- Primary weapon: HK416, 14.5” barrel, Eotech Magnifier and holo (or Grathik knockoffs) or knockoff of elcan SpecterDR, sling with the plastic clips, attached to paracord wrapped around a polymer (for silence) sling loop and the rear stock, Israeli style using issue slings. AN/PEQ-2, forward grip-pod, MBUIS and flip front sight, cowitnessing. Round fifteen and the last four rounds of every magazine are tracers to let him know that he's running low and needs to be ready to reload.
- Sidearm: M1911A1, with ambidextrous safety, synthetic grips, expanded ejection port and tritium dot night sights. The holster is rigged on the waist, crossdraw position, grip canted. Four magazines, .45ACP
- Grenades; Frags, Two WP (the WP rises instantaneously, instead of waiting for smoke to mark a position.) Pouches on the vest.
- Optional: Wetsuit, dry suit, fins and SCUBA gear. If he thinks he's going to get wet, he'll put on a drysuit under the uniform. He also may supplement his web gear with the sort of rapid-inflation flotation device designed for naval special operators to wear under the vest.
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