Gender: Female
Age: 29 (born Jan, 21st 1972)
Height: 5 feet 6 inches (1.67m)
Weight: 65 kg (143 lb)
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Ethnicity: Native American & African American mix
Nationality: United States (Edgeley, North Dakota)
Service Branch: USMC

• Primary MOS: 6227 Fixed-Wing Aircraft Power Plants Mechanic, F-404
  
• B-Billet MOS: 8151 Marine Security Guard

Rank: E-5/Sergeant
Years of service:

• Jun – Sep 1989: Boot Camp, MCRD Parris Island, South Carolina.
  
• Oct 1989 – Oct 1990: Fixed-Wing Aircraft Power Plants Mechanic, F-404 school Pensacola. Florida.
  
• Oct 1990 – Dec 1990: Power plant Mechanic assigned to VMFA-212, Marine Aircraft Group 11, MCAS El Toro, California.
  
• Dec 1990 – Apr 1991: Deployed to Bahrain for Operation Desert Shield, and Desert Storm .
  
• Apr 1991 – Jun 1992: Power plant Mechanic assigned to VMFA-212, Marine Aircraft Group 11, MCAS El Toro, California.
  
• Jun 1992 – Jan 1995: Power plant Mechanic assigned to VMFA-242, Marine Aircraft Group 12, MCAS Iwakuni in Japan.
  
• May 1995 – Aug 1996: Assigned to US Embassy London, UK.
  
• Aug 1996 – Sep 2000: Assigned to US Embassy Budapest, Hungary.

Physical Description: TBD

Background: Myla Cooper was born on a potato farm in rural North Dakota. Coming from a family of potato farmers where the father Native American and the mother was African American with four children meant that the prospects of education beyond high school was pretty slim. Thus, Myla joined the USMC for a six year enlistment after graduating high school. After boot camp Myla became a F/A-18 power plant mechanic and reported in to her unit shortly before deploying to Bahrain for Operation Desert Shield/Storm. After Desert Storm she returned to the United States.

In June of 1992 Myla was re-assigned to VMFA-242, MAG-12 located in Iwakuni Japan where the squadron she was assigned to supported combat operations occurring in Far East Asia.

With Global tensions being what they were in 1995, Myla’s enlistment was extended for the ‘duration plus six months’. Thus, she volunteered for and received orders to Marine Security Guard School, Quantico Virginia. With the USMC needing its combat arms units fully staffed over half of Myla MSG class was composed of female Marines who were not allowed into combat arms MOS’s. After completing MSG school, a course that had a 20-50% drop out rate she was assigned to the US Embassy in London in mid 1995. In early 1997 she was then assigned to the US Embassy in Budapest Hungary.

Duty in Budapest was much different then London due to Hungary being an aggressor against NATO. Thus, the embassy had only the minimal staff necessary to operate. Still the Marine Security Guard Detachment was at full strength of one Staff NCO, and five NCO’s. With Hungary under martial law, Myla spent most of her time on the Embassy compound or the separate compound that housed embassy personnel. Due to growing up in rural North Dakota, where a lot of produce was acquired from local farmer’s markets as opposed to the local supermarket resulted in Myla spending quite a bit of time assisting embassy personnel at the produce market. This in turn resulted in Myla interacting with not only members of the remaining diplomatic mission in Budapest, but with the local militia.

When the United States suffered nuclear attacks in 1997, the U.S. Embassy Budapest was for the most part cut off from the United States in terms of resupply of personnel, food, and other necessary goods. Due to various rioting and other civil unrest, the embassy personnel evacuated the housing compound and began to live on the Embassy compound.

With the U.S. Government splitting into two factions, the U.S. Embassy Budapest sided with the Milgov faction. With the Civgov controlling North Dakota, Myla hasn’t heard anything from her family since the United States entered a state of perpetual civil war.

The next three years (1997-2000) were pretty bleak for Myla. Although she still carried out her duty as a U.S. Marine Embassy Guard, she also found herself doing other jobs at the embassy such as an electrician, mechanic, and fabricate parts. Outside the Embassy she continued to assist in procuring produce for the embassy, sometimes offering her services as an electrician or mechanic to help pay for the produce. There were of course a number of close calls where men tried to assault her, but she got lucky in being able to run away or in four instances killed her attacker.

Oddly, it took almost two years for the Hungarian government to make the decision to cease diplomatic relations with the Milgov faction of the U.S Government with the official date being October 1st, 2000.

With really no way for the embassy staff to leave Hungary, the central government demanded that all Embassy personnel turn themselves over for internment, and any U.S. military personnel would be sent to a POW camp.

With the Ambassador giving everyone a choice to turn themselves over to the Hungarian authorities on October 1st or to try and make it back to the US (or wherever) on their own, Myla chose to strike it out on her own. Having avoided being raped for the past two years when outside the embassy compound, Myla was fairly sure that if taken in as a POW she’d be raped more than a few times when in captivity.

Making use of her militia contacts, Myla was smuggled out of Budapest and past the government-controlled checkpoints during the early hours of September 30th, 2000. It took three days just to get out of Budapest proper. Due to the state of the roads, various checkpoints, and one nasty firefight Myla only managed to travel a whole 200 kilometers by October 10th and found herself at a safe house in Bratislava, the Slovak Republic.

The safe house itself turned to be an actual castle occupied by the contact she was given, a man named Anton Sander....