User:Measterly

I joined the Starfleet Marines at the age of 16 with my parents permission. I enlisted as a Recon Corpsman, but while I was still in training I had the opportunity to attend Scout Sniper school. My team saw action on several worlds during my first tour. I rose to the rank of Gunnery Sergeant in a short six years, Twice I was awarded the Pike Medal of Valor. I was married to a very beautiful Klingon woman named K'llara on 27 Apr. 2368. K'llara had a passion for life and everything in it, whatever she did, she did it with all that she was. I loved her with all of my being. Her father gave me a Bat'leth and d'ktagh as a wedding present. These hang on the wall of my office behind my desk. The d'ktagh that I carry on my pistol belt was a gift from K'llara on our wedding night. She gave the knife and a matching Bat'leth to me, and then during the consummation of our vows broke my left, and right clavicles, right ulna, and seven of my ribs. Together we had a son, Rigel II (born in 2369), and two daughters, Grillka, and M'nara (born in 2370, and 2372). In 2369 I found myself at the academy as a Drill Instructor. I returned to the field in 2371 only to have my eyes opened to how poor conditions were on the colony worlds. In 2372 when my enlistment ran out I left the Marines and headed for the D.M.Z. I felt I could do more as a civilian than as a soldier. Shortly after arriving I joined the Maquis and attended their Marine N.C.O. training. My first assignment was as a platoon sergeant on Dorvan V. I was soon to distinguish myself against the Cardassians, and was quickly placed in the Officer Candidate School, where I received training in Starfighter piloting and Mekk piloting. I found myself on the "fast track" as they say, only eight months after I received my commission as 2nd Lieutenant I was promoted to Captain. (K'llara, and our children where killed in 2374. I don't talk about them much, so only my closest friends know I was ever married).

Rear Admiral Alan Tetsuhara