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Staff Sergeant Nathaniel Wolf
Name Nathaniel Jakob Wolf
Rank Staff Sergeant
Character Information
| Gender | Male | |
| Species | Human | |
| Age | b. 4.30.1988 | |
| Weapons Layout | Pistol: Glock 19, Carbine SCAR, Sniper Rifle/DMR: SCAR, Anti-Materiel Rifle: Barrett Rifle (XM500?), Special: Manurhin M73 .357 Magnum Sniper Pistol (from GIGN), double bladed tactical dagger |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 6ft 2in | |
| Weight | 180lbs | |
| Hair Color | Dark Brown | |
| Eye Color | Brown | |
| Physical Description | Lean, tough, sinewy. Being wiry means that he's quite a bit stronger than he looks. He's agile, graceful, and precise in his movements. His smile is friendly and inviting. His scowl is terrifying for both those below him in rank AND green lieutenants who aren't very sure of themselves yet. |
Family
| Spouse | n/a | |
| Children | n/a | |
| Father | Josef Wolf | |
| Mother | Sarah | |
| Brother(s) | N/A | |
| Sister(s) | N/A | |
| Other Family | Grandparents, extended family |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Nathaniel has had sixteen years to work through his anger and bitterness over the situation that led him to run away from home and join the French Foreign Legion, and he has… mostly. Would he stay past the 17 ½ years required for a small pension with cost of living increases? Nate wasn’t sure. What did he really have to go back to or even forward to? No, the Legion took care of him for years. It was a home when his own home and his life in America became untenable. He’d made a life for himself and even though it wasn’t the life he’d planned, it was a life nonetheless. Nathaniel firmly believes in being his best, especially at work. He believes in work/life balance but can abide slackers. He also believes that while life isn’t fair, people can try to be, that putting effort into being fair is an essential part of being a good and honorable human being. Nate is a Legionnaire through and through. “Honneur et Fidélité" in everything he does. If he doesn’t want to deal with questions about why he, as an American, is in the French Foreign Legion, or sometimes just as a gag, he’ll pretend he doesn’t understand much English, that his French is iffy, and that he’s only fluent in some other language like Russian or German or Italian or even Arabic. German is the most believable if they know his last name is “Wolf”. If he really wants to mess with someone, he’ll speak in Yiddish (a combination of German and Hebrew). |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths: Though the Commando Parachute Group is not part of the French Special Operations Command, they receive similar training and are prepared to conduct Green and Black Ops missions, Counterterrorism missions, and Counterinsurgency missions. Nate has spent most of his career in the Commando Parachute Group platoon of 2e REP. Formally trained in Aikido and Judo as a child and teenager, and continued his study and practice of Judo with the Judo Club on the 2e REP base. The Legion taught “C4”, a combination of Jiu Jitsu, Krav Maga, and Thai Boxing and also taught him a form of “Combat Parkour”. Nate learned Paranza Corta (Sicilian knife fighting; stiletto) from a Sicilian Legionnaire NCO. A double-bladed tactical dagger is part of his usual load out. Nate is a Hyperpolyglot. American English is his native tongue. He learned Prayerbook Hebrew in synagogue (an annual school trip to Israel every year helped him hone his Conversational Hebrew). His family was made up of Russians and German Jews and Italian gentiles. He was constantly being forced to communicate in Russian, Italian, German, and even Yiddish (which, thankfully, had similarities to both German and Hebrew). In high school, he studied French (and of course continued that learning when he joined the Legion). 2e REP is based in Corsica, allowing him to practice his Italian and to learn Corso to communicate with the locals, which was useful when someone protested that they didn’t speak French or Italian. Through self directed learning (CDs, online courses, conversations with locals, films, television, etc.), he has also taught himself to communicate in Standard Arabic (Chad), Chadian Arabic (Chad), Hassaniyyah Arabic (Mauritania, Mali), Hausa (Niger), Moore (Burkina-Faso), and Dyula (Burkina-Faso) Weaknesses: While fair, he can be a hard man. He can be very intolerant of people who are professionally and/or personally dishonorable, disloyal, disrespectful. He believes the bare minimum you should be putting into your work is 100%, which means you shoot for 200%. Anything else is lazy. This can be very off-putting to some people and can make for a very lonely life for Nate. He bristles when people accuse him of being a traitor because he served in the Foreign Legion instead of the US military. He doesn’t usually explain, though. He had his reasons and they were his and his alone. It’s no one's business but his. Of course, part of the reason he doesn’t like to explain is that, deep inside, he has doubts. Had he taken the moral high ground? Or had he just run away from a life that he no longer wanted to live? |
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| Ambitions | Nathaniel plans to serve in the Legion until they push him out the door, kicking and screaming, preferably with a Major's pension. (Major is the top Warrant Officer/NCO rank in the French Foreign Legion). | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Hobbies: Languages, martial arts practice, Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Blues, Funk. He enjoys reading about history, particularly enjoys finding the irony, contradiction, and hypocrisy in history. He loves French and British crime novels, TV/streaming series, and movies. He loves Solitaire and Head-to-Head Solitaire. He learned some Yoga and Pilates as part of his martial arts training and likes doing those exercises. A French Army Officer assigned to the Legion taught Parkour and when he can, Nate likes to practice that to keep nimble. He taught himself meditation from books and meditates regularly. |
| Personal History | Nathaniel Wolf had all of the good stuff in the lower tiers of Maslow’s Hierarchy. He had a roof over his head, food in his belly, and clothes on his back. He had access to education, extracurricular activities. Well, mostly he just threw himself into martial arts. But more on that later. He had access to medical care. When you get to the upper tiers, however, his life was a bit less rosey. Nathaniel did okay in school but was clearly not making any waves academically. This was a problem because his parents were both academics, and his mother was a MENSA level genius. Mom didn’t suffer fools, which it was clear she defined as anyone not as smart as she was. It was also clear this included her son. Nathaniel’s father couldn’t understand the boy, either. Luckily, Nathaniel had a very patient stepfather and stepfamily who saw to it that he had the emotional and moral support he needed. Nathaniel excelled in two areas: Firstly, he was a hyperpolyglot, meaning he could learn and retain a great many languages easily. Secondly, Nate started studying Judo and Aikido when he was 6 years old. These were activities that he was well-suited to and learned quickly. Nathaniel wasn’t there to fight. He was there because he was having fun and excelling at something. He was there because practicing and learning made him feel good. Little did he know that what he was learning would save someone else’s life… and nearly ruin his own. One night, when he was 16, he was walking home from a friend’s house. He cut through the school parking lot and heard what he thought were the sounds of a struggle. When he got closer, he realized there was a woman’s voice, and the voices of several men. He rounded the corner and found 2 boys from one of the athletic teams (I’ll fix this before I submit the app) attempting to assault a high school girl. Nathaniel had seen her around, said hi to her in the hallways. She was attractive and flirty and that gave a reputation. Regardless of whether she really did “get around”, that didn’t give anyone permission to just do whatever they wanted to her. Nathaniel stepped in. The girl fought back, too. When they were done, the boys were severely injured, and the girl had been knocked unconscious. She slipped into a coma for many months, during which time the boys said they’d found Nathaniel assaulting her and tried to intervene. That story had serious credibility problems, but without the girl to contradict the boys’ statements, and because the defense attorney for the boys kept pushing this narrative, the police had to continue to consider Nathaniel a suspect. Eventually, Nathaniel was cleared of all criminal charges but the boys’ parents sued him and his parents in civil court for damages. Finally, the whole matter was settled, as far as the courts and the police were concerned. But the court of public opinion was a different matter entirely. During the trial, Nathaniel had to be taken out of school for safety reasons, and was homeschooled. He was able to complete high school and walk the stage with his class. However, when he walked the stage at graduation to receive his diploma, the boys’ teammates and many other students (mostly male) booed, hissed, yelled antisemitic slurs, etc. The post-High School plan had been for Nathaniel to attend the university his mother taught at, since he could attend there tuition free. To give him some time to compress after his two years of strife, his parents sent him to stay with a friend in France, hoping the vacation would recharge his batteries. However, after only a short time in France, Nathaniel disappeared. In reality, he had run off and joined the French Foreign Legion Nathaniel disappeared for many years. Like all Legionnaires, he took an assumed name for his first five years of service. Eventually, he reclaimed his identity so that he could open a bank account, use his passport, etc. He currently has dual American and French citizenship. Nathaniel selected the 2e Foreign Parachute Regiment, and won that assignment. Most of Nathaniel’s career so far has been in the Combat Support Battalion of the 2e Foreign Parachute Regiment, first as a sniper and then as a member of the Foreign Legion contingent of the elite Parachute Commando Group. Nathaniel was with the 2e REP in Chad when the Goa’uld attacked. He was in the Sniper Platoon of the Combat Support Company. He and his spotter were one of several teams sent to provide overwatch and other precision fire duties for French forces involved in Operation Epervier. As a sniper, Nate quickly learned, largely through a process of trial and error, to spot and exploit the weak spots in Goa’uld body armor, allowing him to disable and even kill Jaffa. When armed with the 12.7mm PGM Hecate II, he found, again through trial and error, that he could do real damage to Jaffa, and to some Goa’uld military equipment as well. What Nate and his fellow snipers did bogged down the Goa’uld and their Jaffa, leading to a French/Chadian victory over the invading aliens. But that victory came at great cost. The disparity in weaponry between the French/Chadian forces and the Goa’uld led to heavy casualties for Earth’s French and Chadian defenders. Since then he has served in Operation Épervier (Counterinsurgency/Counterterrorism and anti-Goa’uld missions in Chad & Mali), Operation Serval (Counterinsurgency in Mali), and Operation Barkhane (Counterterrorism/Counterinsurgency and anti-Goa’uld missions in Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Chad, Burkina-Faso). He was also assigned to executive protection details for high ranking officers, diplomats, and government officials in high risk areas both inside and outside the borders of France. |
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| Service Record | Education and Training: French Foreign Legion Basic Training 2e REP training course Sniper School GCP pipeline Mountain Combat Training (Training with 2e REG “Mountain Regiment”) Jungle Assistant Course (Jungle Combat Training, French Guiana with 3e REI). Desert Commando Course Military Operations on Urban Terrain Course Amphibious Warfare Training (Training with 3e Company, 2e REP) Stage Caporal (Corporals Course) Stage Sergent (Sergeants Course/Advanced Leadership Course) Rank Progression July 2006 December 2006 FFL Basic Training (Recruit, Legionnaire 2e Class), 2e REP Training (Legionnaire 2e Class) January 2007 thru May 2007 Legionnaire 2e Class, 2e Company, 2e REP June 2007 thru July 2011 Legionnaire 1re Class, Sniper Platoon, Combat Support Company, 2e REP August 2011 thru July 2016 Caporal, GCP Platoon, Combat Support Company, 2e REP August 2016 thru July 2021 Sergent, GCP Platoon, Combat Support Company, 2e REP August 2021 thru August 2022 Sergent Chef, GCP Platoon, Combat Support Company, 2e REP |