Name: Craig 'Clint' McClintock
Date of Birth: June 30, 1997 (Age 29)
Birthplace: Inverness, Scotland
Position: Assistant Chief Tactical Officer
Education: [NONE FOUND]
Bio: Born in the small city of Inverness nestled in the Scottish Highlands, Craig is the latest member of the McClintock clan to dedicate his life to warfare. Growing up he listened attentively as he learned of the family line; the McClintock in the Nile Expedition, the McClintock in WWI and WWII, all the way to the Battle of the Hook during the Korean War, and subsequent peacekeeping operations since then from Malaysia, and Northern Ireland. He was proud to learn during his birth, his father was one of the last people to leave Hong Kong during the 1997 handover to China - he would later tell Craig it felt like capitulating to the Communist enemies.
Craig worshiped the ground his father walked on, along with the McClintock soldiers who went before. He studied hard during his schooling in order to live up to the McClintock name - to make his father, and his forefathers proud. He was therefore understandably crushed when his father Malcolm McClintock was killed in action on June 24, 2009 during Operation Panther's Claw in Iraq, shortly before his son's twelfth birthday and end of tour. Distraught at the loss of his seemingly superhuman idol, Craig never got over it, his grief festering over his most formative years into hate for any enemy, foreign and domestic (but mostly foreign).
In 2015 at the age of eighteen, against the begging protestations of his mother, Craig enlisted into The Black Watch, part of the newly-established Scottish Army stationed at his Inverness hometown. It was there that he learned just how grueling life as a soldier can be. As a grunt Private he trained and learned the art of warfare, taking to the book Art of War by Sun Tzu like a duck to water - he still prizes the small 'manual' as one of his most treasured possessions. As he climbed the ranks to Gunnery Sergeant he slowly became more detached from reality as the multiple warzones and theaters of war took it's toll on his mental psyche, rotating through girlfriends as often as deployments. His battle honors include the 2017 Iranian War, the Second Korean War in 2021 and latterly multiple peacekeeping operations among the African flashpoints from 2023.
It was then that Master Sergeant McClintock caught the eye of the European Space Agency (ESA), who wanted a solid dependable soldier who would defend the S.S. Ironman from foreign and domestic enemies alike. Given his impressive record and numerous commendations and medals, plus his dedication to the the chain of command, they had found their man to maintain the status quo, as well as law and order. Transferring to a naval hierarchy, Craig's rank was transferred to Ensign - creating a new first for the McClintock's; the first to go into space - and underwent astronaut and tactical training in preparation for his biggest deployment yet - one he may not return from.