JAG Fanfic: "Fair Winds" Status: In Progress

Read at Fanfiction.net  Fair Winds

Pairing: Animal/Meg, Harm/Mac

Summary: After forty years in the Navy, Animal decides that all good things must come to an end.

Artwork for the Next SW Fanfic.

Here is some artwork for the next Star Wars Fanfic I plan to write. No title yet, but I did manage a somewhat passable photoshop.

Yorlan Wolf, former Jedi Padawan, after discovering a Sith Holocron on one of their missions. Seduced by the teachings of Darth Malachor, he eventually falls to the Dark Side and after treacherously killing his Jedi Master, becomes Darth Perfidious.

JAG Fanfic: "On Angels' Wings" Status: Complete

Read at Fanfiction.net  On Angels' Wings

Pairing: Animal/Meg, Harm/Mac

Summary: With the events of September 11th fresh in their minds, the JAG crew prepare for the ceremonies to mark the 2nd anniversary of that fateful day.

Hot Button Topic: Mary Sues and their counterpart Marty Stu - and the JAG (Military) Mary Sue.

Holy Jumpin' Jehosephat.  When the hell does she find time to sleep?  
or the "I can't fit everything on the proper side because I've got too many fucking medals" syndrome

"The archetypal Military Mary Sue"

  

1. Wounded so many times in battle she can't walk through an airport metal detector without setting it off.
2. More decorations and attachments (meaning subsequent awards) than a person can acquire in one lifetime, let alone three.
3. Been to Iraq, Afghanistan so many times that she's lost count.  
4. Fast tracked all the way to O-6 before she hits 25 because she's good like that.
5. Is only 25 but she's managed to find enough time to pass Marine Jump School, study to become a Naval Aviator; and go through BUD/s training to become a SEAL.  
6. has "won" not "received" the Medal of Honor because to her, everything is a competition and if you ain't won the blue button, you ain't won shit. 
7. Is going to somehow get promoted to Fleet Admiral (5-stars) even though that rank hasn't been in use since the 1950s.  
8. Is an expert marksman in both rifle and pistol, can shoot anything in the US military inventory up to and including the M65 Atomic Cannon...and damned near everything in the Soviet military arsenal too.  
9. Went to the Air Force for an year to show them "how its done" even though she's 25.  
10. Commanded a Navy fighter squadron, a Navy SEAL unit all at the same time.  
11. Is planning to qualify to become an astronaut at the age of 26.  
12. Shot down so many MiGs Erich Hartmann (the ranking ace) is threatening to come back from the afterlife to get a few more kills before she overtakes him.  She's coming up on 335 kills (17 shy of his record).  Yeah...she's that damned good.  
13. Can tell the admiral off in 17 different languages and in Ancient Urdu too.  
14. She's also planning on going to law school concurrently as she's taking astronaut training.  After all with what happened during Season 1 Recovery, hell, NASA will need a JAG lawyer too.  
15. Can come up with a solution faster than the canon cast can come up with a problem; will more often than not solve the problem before the cast can even come up with the problem.  
16. "Everybody likes me!!!"  and she can get anyone she wants with a crook of her little finger.   
    
17. She can kick anyone's ass...since she knows 15 different types of martial arts.
18. Always the first one to come up with a solution while everyone else stands around looking at each other or in adulation of her.   
19. (more to come when I can think up of more). 

Are you writing a Military Mary Sue or Marty Stu?

The Navy Cross - Bauble or Award?

Navy Cross

 

Navy Cross - ribbon

The medal that you are looking at is the second most prestigious medal in the United States Navy Precedence chart.  

The criteria for awarding the Navy Cross are as follows:  

The Navy Cross may be awarded to any member of the U.S. Armed Forces while serving with the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard (in time of war only) who distinguishes himself or herself in action by extraordinary heroism not justifying an award of the Medal of Honor. The action must take place under one of three circumstances:

1. While engaged in action against an enemy of the United States
2. While engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force
3. While serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict in which the United States is not a belligerent party.

The act(s) to be commended must be performed in the presence of great danger or at great personal risk and must be performed in such a manner as to render the individual highly conspicuous among others of equal grade, rate, experience, or position of responsibility. An accumulation of minor acts of heroism does not justify an award of the Navy Cross. As originally authorized, the Navy Cross could be awarded for distinguished non-combat acts, but legislation of 7 August 1942 limited the award to acts of combat heroism.

There is a reason why this medal is the 2nd highest honor in the United States Military Heraldry.

Yet we see many instances of JAG characters adorned with the Navy Cross with no idea as to why they were awarded the honor.

We know why Admiral AJ Chegwidden was awarded the Navy Cross - events during 1968 during the Tet Offensive when he was in-country.

But there are other instances:

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As Spanofan points out, he is a "single cruise" officer.  There is no way that he would have made O-6 doing a single sea-tour.  Was his single tour out to Desert Storm on CAP where he got jumped by a whole squadron of Iraqi MiG 23s?  Who the hell knows?  But that ribbon doesn't make sense.  By the time he hits O-6 he would have had a considerable number of stars on the sea-service ribbon.  So my question is where the hell would he have had the time or instance to be involved in a "combat situation" that would merit a Navy Cross?   

 

Major General Butler in Desert Son, yet again a single sea-service yet a single bronze star on his Joint Sea Service ribbon.  How can you do that and find the time to get a Navy Cross?  Was it in the same Offensive where AJ earned his?  He also served in Desert Storm in Kuwait as he has a Liberation of Kuwait and SW Asia Service 

(to be continued)

  

Character Analysis: Why Sarah "Mac" Mackenzie isn't St. Mac the Divine

 St. Mac the Divine?
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I used to be a Harm/Mac Shipper. I really did. At one point, I used to write Mac as Mac the Invincible. The thing was...I grew out of it the more I watched the show.

Let's see what The Powers That Be (henceforth referred to as TPTB) wrote Mac as (or as I refer to her as "Canon(ical)-Mac". She was an alcoholic (full stop). She had to stay away from the bottle for fear of relapsing. She hasn't attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in years. On top of that she is married, does not disclose her marital status to the Marine Corps when she joined (who the hell knows where Chris Ragle was all this time other than making enemies who want to kill him) - that is known as falsifying her marital status to join the Marine Corps. The seriousness of this offence isn't a matter of just saying "Oops, I'm sorry, I forgot that I was married." Married means being entitled to benefits. She may have opted to go without those benefits by saying that she wasn't married when she was. But what happens if the spouse all of a sudden appears showing documents that she was married. It's a black mark on the Corps. For this kind of offence the UCMJ prescribes charge under Punitive Article 83 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

“Any person who—

(1) procures his own enlistment or appointment in the armed forces by knowingly false representation or deliberate concealment as to his qualifications for that enlistment or appointment and receives pay or allowances thereunder; or
(1) Fraudulent enlistment or appointment.
(a) That the accused was enlisted or appointed in an armed force;
(b) That the accused knowingly misrepresented or deliberately concealed a certain material fact or facts regarding qualifications of the accused for enlistment or appointment;
(c) That the accused’s enlistment or appointment was obtained or procured by that knowingly false representation or deliberate concealment; and
(d) That under this enlistment or appointment that accused received pay or allowances or both.
Explanation: (1) In general. A fraudulent enlistment, appointment, or separation is one procured by either a knowingly false representation as to any of the qualifications prescribed by law, regulation, or orders for the specific enlistment, appointment, or separation, or a deliberate concealment as to any of those disqualifications. Matters that may be material to an enlistment, appointment, or separation include any information used by the recruiting, appointing, or separating officer in reaching a decision as to enlistment, appointment, or separation in any particular case, and any information that normally would have been so considered had it been provided to that officer.

 Maximum punishment. (1) Fraudulent enlistment or appointment. Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for 2 years.

Compounding that problem, when she is assigned to Okinawa she has an adulterous affair with a senior officer; Grounds for an Article 133 charge

“Any commissioned officer, cadet, or midshipman who is convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”
(1) That the accused did or omitted to do certain acts; and
(2) That, under the circumstances, these acts or omissions constituted conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman.

Explanation.

(1) Gentleman. As used in this article, “gentleman” includes both male and female commissioned officers, cadets, and midshipmen.
(2) Nature of offense. Conduct violative of this article is action or behavior in an official capacity which, in dishonoring or disgracing the person as an officer, seriously compromises the officer’s character as a gentleman, or action or behavior in an unofficial or private capacity which, in dishonoring or disgracing the officer personally, seriously compromises the person’s standing as an officer. There are certain moral attributes common to the ideal officer and the perfect gentleman, a lack of which is indicated by acts of dishonesty, unfair dealing, indecency, indecorum, lawlessness, injustice, or cruelty. Not everyone is or can be expected to meet unrealistically high moral standards, but there is a limit of tolerance based on customs of the service and military necessity below which the personal standards of an officer, cadet, or midshipman cannot fall without seriously compromising the person’s standing as an officer, cadet, or midshipman or the person’s character as a gentleman. This article prohibits conduct by a commissioned officer, cadet or midshipman which, taking all the circumstances into consideration, is thus compromising. This article includes acts made punishable by any other article, provided these acts amount to conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Thus, a commissioned officer who steals property violates both this article and Article 121. Whenever the offense charged is the same as a specific offense set forth in this Manual, the elements of proof are the same as those set forth in the paragraph which treats that specific offense, with the additional requirement that the act or omission constitutes conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman.
(3) Examples of offenses. Instances of violation of this article include knowingly making a false official statement; dishonorable failure to pay a debt; cheating on an exam; opening and reading a letter of another without authority; using insulting or defamatory language to another officer in that officer’s presence or about that officer to other military persons; being drunk and disorderly in a public place; public association with known prostitutes; committing or attempting to commit a crime involving moral turpitude; and failing without good cause to support the officer’s family.

Maximum punishment : Dismissal, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for a period not in excess of that authorized for the most analogous (similar) offense for which a punishment is prescribed in this Manual, or, if none is prescribed, for 1 year.

Right there, those two offences in itself would have drummed her out of the service, yet she is allowed to continue as a Marine and attain the rank of Captain, and further along Major. One cannot say Colonel John Farrow (the other party in the adultery) was wholly innocent, but he is not entirely guilty either. There are two parties to an act of adultery; both willing participants and as such would be 100% guilty of the Article 133 charge. Not to mention she would be co-charged under Article 134 (specifically Adultery) of the UCMJ.

The UCMJ says you can be charged with a violation if an extramarital affair has an adverse effect on unit "discipline, morale, or cohesion."
(1) That the accused wrongfully had sexual intercourse with a certain person;
(2) That, at the time, the accused or the other person was married to someone else; and
(3) That, under the circumstances, the conduct of the accused was to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces or was of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.

Explanation.

(1) Nature of offense. Adultery is clearly unacceptable conduct, and it reflects adversely on the service record of the military member.
(2) Conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline or of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces. To constitute an offense under the UCMJ, the adulterous conduct must either be directly prejudicial to good order and discipline or service discrediting. Adulterous conduct that is directly prejudicial includes conduct that has an obvious, and measurably divisive effect on unit or organization discipline, morale, or cohesion, or is clearly detrimental to the authority or stature of or respect toward a servicemember. Adultery may also be service discrediting, even though the conduct is only indirectly or remotely prejudicial to good order and discipline. Discredit means to injure the reputation of the armed forces and includes adulterous conduct that has a tendency, because of its open or notorious nature, to bring the service into disrepute, make it subject to public ridicule, or lower it in public esteem. While adulterous conduct that is private and discreet in nature may not be service discrediting by this standard, under the circumstances, it may be determined to be conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline. Commanders should consider all relevant circumstances, including but not limited to the following factors, when determining whether adulterous acts are prejudicial to good order and discipline or are of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces:
(a) The accused's marital status, military rank, grade, or position;
(b) The co-actor's marital status, military rank, grade, and position, or relationship to the armed forces;
(c) The military status of the accused's spouse or the spouse of co-actor, or their relationship to the armed forces;
(d) The impact, if any, of the adulterous relationship on the ability of the accused, the co-actor, or the spouse of either to perform their duties in support of the armed forces;
(e) The misuse, if any, of government time and resources to facilitate the commission of the conduct;
(f) Whether the conduct persisted despite counseling or orders to desist; the flagrancy of the conduct, such as whether any notoriety ensued; and whether the adulterous act was accompanied by other violations of the UCMJ;
(g) The negative impact of the conduct on the units or organizations of the accused, the co-actor or the spouse of either of them, such as a detrimental effect on unit or organization morale, teamwork, and efficiency;
(h) Whether the accused or co-actor was legally separated; and
(i) Whether the adulterous misconduct involves an ongoing or recent relationship or is remote in time.
(3) Marriage. A marriage exists until it is dissolved in accordance with the laws of a competent state or foreign jurisdiction.
(4) Mistake of fact. A defense of mistake of fact exists if the accused had an honest and reasonable belief either that the accused and the co-actor were both unmarried, or that they were lawfully married to each other. If this defense is raised by the evidence, then the burden of proof is upon the United States to establish that the accused's belief was unreasonable or not honest.".

As one can see this whole UCMJ statute here would open up a can of worms for Sarah Mackenzie as the adultery charge would bring up a whole other charge of her "fraudulent appointment" as an officer of the USMC. Just these two points alone were making me wonder if the character creators at JAG were having a day off or something. Because there is no way that Major Sarah Mackenzie would have kept her grade of 1st Lieutenant let alone advanced in grade to Major. And her story as far as JAG was concerned would be over before it began. Let's see what the penalty says...

Maximum punishment: Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for 1 year.

 Ouch.

To Be Continued

JAG Fanfic: "Wild Horses n' Aviators" Status: In-Progress

 

Photo of Horses taken at Vancouver International Airport along Templeton Ave. 

Read at Fanfiction.net  Wild Horses n' Aviators

Pairings: Animal/Meg

Summary: "Come with me to Texas" – 5 meaningful words lead to a whole lot more.

JAG Fanfic: "Where Eagles Fly" Status: In-Progress

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Read at Fanfiction.net  Where Eagles Fly

Pairings: none (this is a war fic)

Summary: Some of the events in Harm and Animal's second deployment to the Persian Gulf – The First Gulf War

JAG Fanfic: "There Is No Spark Of Interest" Status: In-Progress

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FINAL COVER!

 Read at Fanfiction.net  There Is No Spark Of Interest

Pairings: Harm/Mac; Animal/Lia

Summary: Harriet sees another opportunity to "match-make" and Liandra is having none of it.

Author's Note: Lia was the character my wife came up with before we got married.  I absconded with Lia and use that character in my fics.  

Robotech Fanfic: "How To Get Rid of a Minmei" Status: In-Progress

Read at Fanfiction.net  How To Get Rid Of A Minmei

Pairings: Rick/Lisa

Summary: Minmei meets a fitting end. Robotech AU. Now a multi-chapter with various ways to end Minmei's pathetic existence.

Warning: Re-rated M for mature themes, and excessive violence to a certain character.  

Star Wars Fanfic: "But Honey, Our Son's Marrying An Imperial!!!" Status: Complete

Read at Fanfiction.net  But Honey, Our Son's Marrying An Imperial!!!

Pairings: Luke/Mara; Anakin/Padme

Summary: Padme Naberrie Skywalker and Anakin Skywalker look upon Mara Jade and Luke Skywalker.

Star Wars Fanfic: "Luke! What Are You Doing?!" Status: Complete

Read at Fanfiction.net  Luke, What Are You Doing?!

Pairings: Luke/Mara

Summary: Anakin Skywalker finds out about Mara Jade

JAG Fanfic: "Love Lift Us Up" Status: In-Progress

 

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Read at Fanfiction.net  Love Lift Us Up

Pairings: Animal/Meg; Harm/Mac

Summary: Tosh & Meg plan their wedding; while Harm's jealousy over Meg having found a relationship causes Mac to enlighten Harm as to how she feels about him. (sequel to Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder)

Warning: Some smut! (Don't say I didn't warn you!)

JAG Ficlet: "Texas Gal" Status: Complete

Read at Fanfiction.net  Texas Gal

Pairing: Animal/Meg

Summary: Ficlet: Animal's F-14 Tomcat – Harm's reaction to "Texas Gal".

JAG Fanfic: "Saudi Arabian Holiday" Status: Complete

Read at Fanfiction.net  Saudi Arabian Holiday

Pairings: Animal/Mac; Harm/Lia

Summary: AJ, Harm, Lia and Mac are taken hostage while in Iraq on a diplomatic mission. Needless to say a certain spook's mission goes south yet again.

JAG Fanfic: "Navy Blue; Marine Green" Status: Complete

Read at Fanfiction.net  Navy Blue; Marine Green

Pairings: Animal/Meg

Summary: Animal, Harm & Metalman go undercover at Marine Corps Basic Recruit training at the notorious Marine Corps Recruiting Depot Parris Island in South Carolina.

JAG Fanfic: "Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder" Status: Complete

Read at Fanfiction.net  Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

Pairings: Animal/Meg; Harm/Mac

Summary: Animal makes preparations on his second deployment as squadron commander of the famed VF-41 Black Aces (but other things conspire to make his tour more memorable). Meg realizes just how much she misses him. Harm and Mac get closer. Lieutenant Phil "Metalman" Burrows is his usual annoying self. Read this story after "Gone Flying" to make sense out of the timeline.

JAG Fanfic: "Gone Flying" Status: Complete

Read at Fanfiction.net  Gone Flying

Pairing: Animal/Meg

Summary: Meg finds out who the real second hottest naval aviator next to the CAG really is.

Warning: Does anybody really think that Harm would stack up against a full-fledged active duty combat aviator MiG Killer in a match of ACM?  Considering how much rust he would have to shake off during each of his annual quals every year considering that he doesn't keep his "fast jet" skills up very often, how well do TPTB think he would have done on the "greenie board"? 

JAG Fic: "Home For The Holidays" Status: "Complete"

Read at Fanfiction.net  Home For The Holidays

Pairing: Harm/Jen

Summary: Jen misses her husband; Harm misses his wife. It's the holidays and Harm's on deployment. So what to do… RADM Weston has the answer. Boot Harm's six off the boat.

JAG Fanfic "A Christmas Diamond" Status: Complete

Read at Fanfiction.net  A Christmas Diamond

Pairing: Harm/Mac

Summary: Season 7 – What if Mac and Sturgis had that conversation earlier in the year? Where could Harm & Mac's relationship have gone?

JAG Fanfic: "No Mac It's Not A Man-Cold" Status: Complete

Read at Fanfiction.net  No, Mac, It's Not A Man-Cold.

Pairing: Animal/Mac

Summary: Animal has the flu. And Mac wonders what she got herself into.

JAG Fanfic: "Beyond the Call of Duty" Status: Complete

Read at Fanfiction.net  Beyond the Call of Duty

Pairing: Animal/Meg (eventually)

Summary: You see Animal with the "blue button" (Medal of Honor). This is the incident that earned him the Medal. Over the skies of North Korea, a TARPS F-14 goes down necessitating a rescue that the Deputy Air Wing Commander objects to. The CAG thinks its dangerous but orders a rescue. JAG Investigation into Animal's MOH eligibility started by RADM Chegwidden.

Warning: This fic is probably the one that will have the "Stolen Valor Sticklers" screaming like a bunch of screaming "mimis".  You know what.  If you can't tell the difference between a piece of written fiction and a real person, then I don't know what to do for you, other than tell you to go cuddle a cute little teddy bear in fatigues, go diddle yourselves or think happy thoughts while sticking your you know what through a knothole.  I have tried to write the character in a way that would typify a Medal of Honor recipient's actions short of outright killing the character in the fiction.  I have no patience nor the time to explain REAL versus NOT REAL to anybody of that ilk.  

JAG Fanfic: "The Harm & Mac Bad Luck Trilogy" Status: Complete

Read at Fanfiction.net The Harm & Mac Bad Luck Trilogy

Pairings: Harm/Mac

Summary: Harm and Mac are together, but they don't seem to have the best of luck...

JAG Fic: "It's A Great Day For Bumping" Status: In Progress

Read at Fanfiction.net  It's A Great Day For Bumping

Pairings: None

Summary: East Coast RAG (Reserve Air Group) Training With The VF-101 Grim Reapers. Harm, Keeter and Pendry get tossed into the barrel learning how to fly and fight with the F-14A Tomcat.

JAG Fic: "Go For Broke" Status: Complete

Read at Fanfiction.net Go For Broke

Pairings: Harm/Mac

Summary: One of my very rare Harm/Mac/Animal short stories from wayyy back. Tells of the story of how Grandma Sarah (nee Koechner) Nakamura and Grandpa Osamu Nakamura got together. And how in explaining his grandparents' situation before WWII, Animal manages to impart a lesson that helps Harm get his head out of his @$$.

JAG Fic: "Memories of Maegyn" Status: Complete

Read at Fanfiction.net Memories of Maegyn

Pairings: Animal/Maegyn; Animal/Meg

Summary: (Rewrite) A Female Commander in a fighter squadron is murdered and her lover ponders whether to go after her killer. Harm and Meg are thrown onto the investigation by AJ. In this AU, Meg stays with JAG, there is no sudden disappearance of Meg Austin. Major Sarah Mackenzie is there as well but she plays only a small role in this story. This is more about Harm, Meg and the OCs.

JAG Fic: "Survival" Status: In-Progress

 

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Read at Fanfiction.net Survival

Pairings: Nuclear War and human survival is at stake, what do you think?

Summary: Continuity of Government (COG) – a stark term for starting over after a holocaust the likes of which is hoped will never ever happen. This is a what-could-happen if the button was ever pressed.

Warning: Dark topics; apocalyptic fic. 
Chapter 4 up - Chapter 5 in progress

JAG Fic: "The Green-Eyed Monster" Status: In-Progress

 

 Read at Fanfiction.net The Green Eyed Monster

Pairings: Harm/Meg; Animal/Lia

Summary: While Harm is working at Grace Aviation, he runs across an old friend he hasn't seen in a long time.  When that friend and Mac meetup, nuclear fireworks ensue.  

Warning: plenty of Mac-bashing.  You have been warned. 

JAG Fiction "Storm Clouds Ahead" Status: Complete

Read at Fanfiction.net:  Storm Clouds Ahead

Pairings: Harm/Jen; Animal/Lia

Summary: Harm and Mac have gone to London; however rough seas loom an year into Harm's assignment.

Warning: major character death. 

Toshio "Animal" Nakamura.

Toshio "Animal" Nakamura

Would be played in real life by 

"Garrett Wang"(Star Trek: Voyager)

Toshio "Animal" Nakamura started out as a "Marty Stu" back in Grade 10 high-school almost 28 years ago after seeing Top Gun for the first time back in 1986.  (Author's Note: Yes, I wanted to fly F-14s (never happened) but now I'm happy as a land-lubbing wildlife photographer who is happily married with kids to a loving wife who has grown away from the TV show JAG that brought us together and is now happily watching Supernatural, Outlander, and Criminal Minds.  For me, TV began with Airwolf and ended with JAG, both Bellisario shows.) 

He gradually grew as a character with more realistic foibles and weaknesses as my ability to write better characters grew.  He also ended up becoming a regular character in my JAG fanfiction.  This character description gives a better idea of Animal as a character in the fanfics. 

Character Description: 

His demeanor is generally irritable, sarcastic, doesn't let Harmon Rabb Jr. get away with much because he figures that Harm's going to crash his aircraft.  He doesn't like "Sarah"; Harm's biplane though Harm has offered him many times to take him up mainly because he feels that the only thing holding him in the airplane and keeping him from making a high-impact collision with the ground is a cheap harness made by the lowest bidder.  He does suffer from a fear of heights, though while strapped to the F-14 securely makes him feel safe.  He also is quick to judge, even though more times than not, he is usually right.  However when he does make mistakes, it's hard for him to apologize (his pride doesn't allow him to bend very far).  Animal, like Harm, has a strict moral code that he adheres to.  He is also devoted to his parents and especially to his late grandfather, a veteran who served with the 442/100 RCT overseas in Italy.  Animal is 3/4s Japanese-American.  His grandfather married a Caucasian woman (who was interned in Tule Lake during WWII because she married a Japanese-American and remained there while her husband was off fighting in Italy) and his half-Japanese father married a Japanese-American woman.  Animal's grandmother was faithful to his grandfather and Animal keeps their memory alive by remembering them every year at Arlington Cemetery.  

Character Biography (so far): 

Animal/Meg Timeline: 

Animal was born in 1958 making him five years older than Harm.  Graduating high-school in 1976, he was commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy in 1980 after completing his degree in Military Science at the University of Rochester through the NROTC program there.  

Animal is considered a MiG Killer after downing 2 MiG 29s over Iraq (fictional as in real life F-14s were shut out of the fixed wing kill ring.  The only kill was a Mi-8 and that wasn't a kill by the VF-41. It was shot down by the VF-1 Wolfpack).  He will later add to that total over the skies of Kosovo by shooting down a third MiG 29 and a Sukhoi Su-27.  He does not achieve ace. But the four shoot-downs earn him a second and third award of the Distinguished Flying Cross.

However in 1995, his squadron, the VF-41 Black Aces, are transferred to the Pacific Fleet and the events that make him a recipient of the Medal of Honor happen.  That incident involved the rescue of a downed naval flight officer in North Korea where the then LCDR Nakamura was wounded in the arm twice while finagling his way into a rescue mission.  During the ensuing investigation (conducted by a LT Harmon Rabb Jr. and LT jg Meg Austin) CDR "Rabbit" Campbell lays charges of disobeying a direct order and insubordinate behavior towards a superior officer charges in a blatant attempt to scuttle the nomination of the MOH.  He is battlefield promoted by the battlegroup commander to O-5, and 2 years later is awarded the Medal of Honor and the Purple Heart in a ceremony in Washington DC at the White House.

Normally MOH recipients are taken off active duty, but Animal manages to finagle his way into two more deployments including the one over Kosovo where he engages both a MiG 29 and a Su-27 in the same sortie.  After a CAG tour as an O-6 he is deep-selected RDML then frocked to RADM to take charge of the Naval Strike Air Warfare Center Command in Fallon NV taking over from the commander who moved the operation there.  With his frocking to RADM, it's clear that Animal is on the fast-track to higher rank.

Animal/Other Timelines:

(Still in progress)

The Character Ribbon Rack:

Like Harm's rack, Animal's ribbon-rack is substantial in size.

Topped by the Medal of Honor, by the time Animal is promoted to full-admiral, he has a substantially sizable rack. Each of those awards has a back-story and will be told as the fics go along. 

Welcome to the "Mental Refuse Bin"

This is where I deposit all the mental garbage coming out of my brain with regards to creative fan-fiction from the TV Shows I like. I may even post some original fic. It goes on here and on Fanfiction.net to make room for other stuff that's more important (like my photography).

I write fanfic for JAG; Star Wars and Robotech/Macross. These are the three main genres I enjoy the most. Military/Science Fiction and Anime. Outside of those two shows and movie series, I don't go for much else in the entertainment world. I find the real world too fascinating. As a photographer, I'm constantly out so I won't have much time to do much writing. Most of my writing is on Fanfiction (dot)net at https://www.fanfiction.net/~cdnjagscribe. So...have fun, have a look around; and see what floats your boat.

I got two rules for y'all:

1) If you don't like a fanfic; just continue on to the next one. Don't bother flaming because a) I research the shit out of my stories going into the piddly details just to give it some realism, hence the length of time between fic chapter updates and b) I don't have time for flamers. I've got other things to do. Constructive criticism is appreciated however random idiotic statements of "you suck!" are just going to get deleted. Does that blow a major hole in your perceived ego? Deal.

2) If you're a thumb-sucking "stolen-valor" obsessed ranter who gets pissed off over imaginary characters wearing the United States Military uniform, or have PTSD and can't distinguish between fictional characters and real ones; do me a favor and go suck down some agent orange with ice? I don't have the time nor the patience for people who've gotten shot through the skull or been in the blast zone of a mortar shell so close that they've addled their braincells the the point where they can't tell between fictional characters and reality. Far be it for me to denigrate your service, but I just don't have the patience to explain the difference between REAL and NOT REAL (FICTION).