Scooter Barnes

Scooter Barnes
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Affiliation	Seventeenth Recon Regiment
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Profession	Infantry

Scooter Barnes was a Mercenary Officer.

History

Born on one of the three Southwest Trinity worlds, Scooter Barnes was one of the generally cantankerous and highly individualistic members who made up the Scout Platoon that operated as a part of the Seventeenth Recon Regiment, also known as Camacho's Caballeros. A big-chested, half-Kiowa man, Scooter was one of those members of the Scout Platoon with a somewhat uncommon upbringing, in that he'd actually spent some time living in cities.

Scooter operated as the shooter in a three-person sniper team within the scout platoon, accompanied into battle by a spotter and security person and wielding a Zeus sniper rifle. On the 2nd of November 3056, the Seventeenth Recon were battling the Ninth Ghost regiment in Masamori, the capital city of Hachiman, as a result of orders from the Internal Security Force, who believed that the Seventeenth's client, Chandrasekhar Kurita, was betraying the Draconis Combine to the Clans. Barnes and the other members of his sniper team were three of the fifteen volunteers who formed the squad led by Lieutenant Cassie Suthorn to penetrate the building occupied by Ninyu Kerai Indrahar, the adoptive son of ISF chief Subhash Indrahar and senior ISF operative on Hachiman, and present him with (fabricated) evidence exonerating Chandrasekhar Kurita. Scooter and his team helped Cassie and the other scouts gain entry to the building, by shooting one of the DEST commandos guarding the street-level entrance - propelling the body of the commando through the reinforced plate glass window of the building lobby.

Bibliography

• Close Quarters (novel)