AVALANCHE
Snow Vehicle Driver
Filename: Costello, Ian M.
S/N: 512-89-8788
Primary Military Speciality: Armoured Vehicle Driver
Secondary Military Speciality: Cold Weather Survival Driver
Birthplace: Madawask, Maine
Grade: E-5 (Sergeant)
When Avalanche came of age, he declined joining his family's business, (poaching, smuggling and bootlegging) and opted for the US Army instead. Having spent most of his youth in the woods with a rifle, he was quite well prepared for certain rigours of military life and totally unprepared for the discipline.
"As part of a survival exercise, Avalanche and twenty other trainees were left in the wilds with a knife and a compass apiece. Most of the others staggered in haggard and worn after a week. They found Avalanche a month later and two hundred miles away, lounging in a motel and spending money he had made from the furs he brought in..."