[Physical Description]
Age: 25
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 168 #
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Light Brown
Complexion: lightly tanned

Jack is not largely muscled, but lean and muscular -- a gymnasts build. His skin is lightly tanned from his outdoor lifestyle, although his appearance is evidently anglo.  Definitely in his mid-twenties, his light brown eyes tell a different story about his soul.  Without a proper barber his brown hair has grown out a bit thicker than he might want or a strict combat arms unit might allow but is well within Army regulation length.

[Background]
Jack Winters, a simple man from Brooklyn, NY.  Jack was born to Teda and John Winters in the Marine Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.  It was as much suburban bliss as Brooklyn could get, even the nearby housing projects were tame relative to other projects in Brooklyn.  Jack's family was by no means wealthy, but they lived a decent middle-class life with John a New York City Police Lieutenant, and Teda an ER nurse by trade, who ended up staying at home to take care of Jack and his younger sister by only one year, Tessa.  Jack's youth was as insignificant in life altering events as they come.  He was an Eagle Scout by 16 years old and attending NYC's premier public high school in Manhattan, Stuyvesant High School.

In his senior year Jack's life would change drastically.  His father was killed in the line-of-duty as he worked Manhattan North Street Crime.  Jack confused and angry nearly dropped out of school, but his mother's tenacity saved him from the edge.  He graduated high school without much fanfare, but could not find the heart to attend college.  He worked odd jobs in construction, with a bit of underground MMA street-fighting to supplement things (or really to take his mind off the pain) and even attempted a computer tech school part time, but he couldn't get into it.

Hope springs eternal, or dies on the operating table. Jack's high school sweet heart, Audrey Chin, who was living with Jack and his family because her own family had fallen apart after her father abandoned them, became pregnant.  This was shortly after Jack found out Audrey was cheating on him with another man.  Jack really wanted it to be his child, so he never got a paternity test and simply accepted the child was his.  Perhaps he could not take another hit in his life.  Life, however, had another plan, as Audrey and child died at childbirth due to major complications.  Jack was near suicidal, again his mother and sister this time saving him from the final edge, and the U.S. Army recruiting station he happened upon while wandering East Harlem where his father was killed.  It amused him to see the petty criminals on the street scatter with a guilty conscience thinking Jack was a cop -- why else would a fit white boy be wandering their 'hood.

Within a week Jack was enlisted in the U.S. Army and headed for OSUT at Fort Benning, GA as an infantryman.  Jack's mistake was taking an open contract, since he didn't really care anyway and wanted to be sent downrange as quickly as possible.  Next thing he knew he was at Fort Knox, KY re-classed as a 19D, Cavalry Scout.  It really didn't matter to Jack.  The beat down of training was a welcome relief to his emotional pain, as he completed both infantry and cav scout schools.  He kept in touch with his mother and sister, but Jack found a new home in the Army.  Others whose lives were as fucked up or worse.  At first it was hard to be the quiet guy who kept to himself as the minorities railed on the white boys and vice versa.  His street-fighting days helped win a few hearts, minds, and brawls.

Jack was set to take the Q-course for Special Forces right after finishing Ranger school, but life again would take it's own course as war broke out.  He had earned his spurs with Custard's former unit, 2-7 Cav as a part of the 1st Cavalary Division, but was now sent to supplement the NCO corps of the 256 BCT out of the Louisiana Army Reserve National Guard.

The 256 BCT took heavy losses in fighting all around Poland, and Jack soon found himself the subject of a battlefield commission, much to his own protests arguing he didn't have a college degree.  Most often the paperwork for such a promotion would get lost in the chaos of war, but somehow, as life always had it's own plan for Jack he received his commission within a couple of months time.  Right before he was transferred out to supplement the 1-40th Armor on some kind of offensive.