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A combat veteran of over a hundred silent wars, John Trident is one of the most experienced and highly respected covert operators in the U.S. intelligence community. Before his NSA career, Trident was a CIA operator within the Special Activities Division, a member of the Special Operations Group, a highly decorated sailor in the U.S. Navy, where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant while serving in the Navy SEALs as an operator of SEAL Team 3, and a Tier One operator within United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (Seal Team 6) of the Joint Special Operations Command.

John had come from a very long line of soldiers, every male Member of his family has served in the military since before the founding of the United States. Every member has been the best that they can be, it was a family tradition and a hard name to live up to. Trident didn't get to grow up like the other kids, tragedy his family when he was very young. Both of his parents were killed in terrorist attack, while they were out on date together. John was sent his Uncle, the Commandant of a Military Naval Boarding School, this is where he grew up and lived. At that young age he knew what he wanted to do, he could be seen training and preparing for his life in the Military, getting physically and mentally tough. When it was time to do his part for his country he enlisted and joined the Navy, at 18, going to the United States Naval Academy. He graduated at the top of his class, excelling in all subjects and not only participating in sports but leading teams to victory.

After he graduated he went to Navy SEAL selection and training. He had prepared his whole life for this moment and nothing was going to stop him from getting the title of SEAL. It was the toughest thing he had ever been through up to that point and they were unable to break him. During training he made sure to not let his fellow Sailors quit and give up, he pushed them to do better. When the training came to an end, he passed at the top of his class earning the title and Trident of a Navy SEAL. He was selected for Seal Team 3, stationed at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado.Trident went on many operations, down range, with the Seals and leading the his own small team.

While on leave from the front lines, John was at a village, near a small military base, that came under attack from a large hostile force. He quickly relieved one of the hostiles from his weapon and began to engage and fight off the rest of the enemy. He was single handedly able to hold off the large enemy assault on a the village, using only the rifle, his bladed weapons, and bare hands, until reinforcements could arrive. He saved countless lives in the process of risking his own life on more then one occasion. For heroism in the line of duty, he was decorated with medals for his Valor, going above and beyond the Call of Duty, but he refused to take the prestigious honor.

Trident had caught the eye of the Tier One Operators, Seal Team 6, they wanted him to join their unit and had a need for his special set of skills. With his new Unit he was called in for a high risk mission, to strike at the enemy and cripple them. He went on many missions with them, all over the world, and with no one knowing they were there. During the mission he was captured so that his team could escape safely, he was held as a prisoner of war. He was able to escape from his cell using only a Bobby pin and his bare hands, the bobby pin was not only used to pick the cell's lock but as a weapon to kill the guards silently. He eliminated most of the enemy and set the other POW's free and led them all to their freedom, not loosing a single one of them. When he got back to the states he was presented with another medal for his Act of Valor, for risking his life to save his team and leading the prisoners to their freedom and families. John did not want to take the medal again and refused to take it.

He was recruited by the CIA Special Activities Division because of his certain skill set, and abilities. He was selected for the Special Observation Group and put through more rigorous training. He would no longer be working with a team, he would be alone during his missions, he would be able to get the job down that a larger team would fail at. He passed the CIA training and was ready to begin his missions in the Black Ops. He was sent all over the world, even on the own soil of the United States, putting down people and groups who directly want to harm and kill Americans. During these level of mission know one knew where he was or what exactly what he was doing. Trident was the best Agent and Operative that they had, they gave him a mission he would get it done. Though fully aware and confident of his abilities, John understands that his survival has often been a gift of chance. He knows he is human and fallible, and he does not want to die.

Trident has been involved in numerous armed conflicts throughout the world, many of them unconventional. Over the course of his extensive service career, he has served in hot spots such as the Persian Gulf (Iraq, Kuwait, etc.), Iran, Colombia, Senegal, and Afghanistan as well as taking covert assignments in North Korea, South Korea, Russia, Panama, Germany, Myanmar, China, Japan, the Republic of Georgia, and even the United States amongst several others. He has not only survived, but has also excelled in the field of covert operations through hard work, insatiable curiosity and brutal honesty. Combat, espionage and constant training have defined his adult life; his tactical experience has become part of his instinct. He is quiet, instinctive, and observant: somebody who watches from the outside. Even outside of work he is most comfortable on the fringes of society, keenly observant but still removed.

Trident was needed in the NSA for a new program, the program produced and deployed Units of highly-trained forward operators as the ultimate intelligence gathering force, with the support of a cutting edge technological team to retrieve information through traditional espionage techniques, but with 21st century technology. For these mission, he was sent to The Farm, where we would undergo the last bit of technology training that he would need, and to go through evaluations to see if he was the right man for the job. He became the first field Agent of this new group.

He helped build this new unit from the ground up, helping to select new recruits and train them for these high risk level missions. This group was unknown to the public and the most of the Government. The directives of their mission where; to aggressively collect intelligence vital to U.S. security, to protect critical U.S. information systems,to keep all operations invisible to the public eye, to work outside the boundaries of international treaties, but know that the U.S. will neither acknowledge nor support their operations. The United States would deny everything about them, they would be dead no records of them any where to be found.