(http://roycedorazio.com/show/AdrianPaul.jpg)<br/><br/>Character Sheet:<br/><br/>Name: Samuel Edward Mackenzie<br/><br/>Gender: Male<br/><br/>Age: 42<br/><br/>Background: Samuel Mackenzie was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1926. His parents were Scottish immigrants and he had two older brothers, Dale and Scott. As a child, he excelled in school. In 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour both of Samuel’s brothers enlisted in the army. Despite his desire to follow, Samuel was too young to enlist. He was forced to remain behind until 1943 when a clerical error allowed him to enlist at the age of 17.<br/><br/>Following basic training, Samuel was assigned to the 2nd Ranger Battalion and participated in the invasion of Normandy in June of 1944. He saw heavy combat in France for several months until he was wounded at the Battle of Brest in August of 1944. His first taste of intelligence work came while he was recovering in London. He was approached by the OSS and asked to courier a small case of documents to a resistance cell operating on the German border. Upon successful completion of that mission, he was used as a courier twice more in 1945.<br/><br/>Samuel returned to the United States in 1947 and attended Stanford University where he studied language and politics until 1952. Upon graduation, Mackenzie was recruited into the newly founded CIA and returned to Europe where he was stationed in Berlin until 1958 when he was transferred to Asia.<br/><br/>In 1959, Mackenzie was deployed along with the 77th Special Forces Group into Laos as a part of Operation “Hotshot.” There he helped train the Royal Laotian Army and members of the indigenous Hmong and Yao tribesmen as they struggled against Communist incursions into that area of the world. Mackenzie remained there until 1962 when the operation officially ended.<br/><br/>From there, Mackenzie began working as part of a counter insurgency taskforce codenamed “Iron Monkey” that worked to identify and neutralize key Communist figures throughout Vietnam and Laos. Eventually his unit was merged with the Phoenix Program when it was established in 1967.<br/><br/>Current profession: CIA Operative<br/>