Hank DeWolfe
Hank was born and raised on a cattle ranch in Ellensburg WA. He is the youngest of 5 boys and 4 of the 5 stayed on to work the family farm with their father. Hank hated the work and planned to get out as soon as he could. He took a eye-opening senior trip to Seattle in 1959. He was astounded at the amount of filth he saw in the streets and decided to do something about it. Hank had always had a clear vision of right and wrong so decided to join the police force in Seattle when he turned 18 in 1960. He quickly became a respected beat police officer and thrived busting bad guys until everything changed in 1964. SPD pushed hard for its officers to support the Vietnam war effort and offered a signing bonus and promised those who joined a job upon their return. Hank was one of the first to take their offer and joined the army late 1964. Private DeWolfe was stationed at Fort Lewis for basic training and was promptly shipped off to Vietnam a year later in 1965.
Hank served 4 tours and became a highly decorated Lieutenant with hundreds of kills under his belt. He craved the hunt and was unusual in that he borrowed some of the North Vietnamese techniques for booby trapping villages with known combatants and became a legendary explosives expert. His platoon was nicknamed The Wolf's Den and became famous for its effectiveness hunting high profile targets. They were also known to have gone a bit off the deep end taking after Hank but nobody really asked questions. Their habits of torturing and killing civilians to get what they needed was just doing what others wouldn't do and hey, they got results... Hank would have kept on until the end of the war but got shot in the buttocks by friendly fire and honorably discharged with a purple heart in 1969.
Hank struggled with the real world upon his return from the war. He quickly learned that SPD was not going to give him his job back with the force. He wandered for months until he fell into a close knit community of war vets. They liked to drink and banter about various conspiracy theories. The most common was about how the government had found a way to create a new breed of "super soldier" in a laboratory and the project had gone haywire. The group was convinced the world would end within the next couple of years when these "soldiers" decided to turn on the population so arm up or get out while you can.
Hank bought into that particular theory and decided to do both. He spent his last pension check on supplies and loaded up a camper van with guns, food and his trusty ham radio and headed north. He ended up in the Yukon in 1971 where he found a remote, abandoned hunting cabin to hole up in. He spent the next 4 years living off of the land and building up his bunker with only the voices of his vet community on the radio he set up to keep him company and infiltrate his mind. Some say Hank was lost during the war, some say it was his years in The Yukon but what really pushed him over the edge was when he started seeing things out of a fairy tale.
At first he thought they were just overgrown bears but once he tried to shoot one and quickly learned that it would take more than a rifle to take it down. He decided to try his booby trap method that he learned in Vietnam and realized that they were also smart. It took weeks to manage to take his first one down and was appalled with what he saw. It was something out of a nightmare. Right then and there in the pool of monster gore Hank found his next war. He knew he needed to find and kill all of these things for the sake of humanity. He also knew that to stop them from coming he would also need to take down the government program that was spawning them. He easily got his war vet buddies on board and set off back to Seattle to wage his new war against monsters.
Hank served 4 tours and became a highly decorated Lieutenant with hundreds of kills under his belt. He craved the hunt and was unusual in that he borrowed some of the North Vietnamese techniques for booby trapping villages with known combatants and became a legendary explosives expert. His platoon was nicknamed The Wolf's Den and became famous for its effectiveness hunting high profile targets. They were also known to have gone a bit off the deep end taking after Hank but nobody really asked questions. Their habits of torturing and killing civilians to get what they needed was just doing what others wouldn't do and hey, they got results... Hank would have kept on until the end of the war but got shot in the buttocks by friendly fire and honorably discharged with a purple heart in 1969.
Hank struggled with the real world upon his return from the war. He quickly learned that SPD was not going to give him his job back with the force. He wandered for months until he fell into a close knit community of war vets. They liked to drink and banter about various conspiracy theories. The most common was about how the government had found a way to create a new breed of "super soldier" in a laboratory and the project had gone haywire. The group was convinced the world would end within the next couple of years when these "soldiers" decided to turn on the population so arm up or get out while you can.
Hank bought into that particular theory and decided to do both. He spent his last pension check on supplies and loaded up a camper van with guns, food and his trusty ham radio and headed north. He ended up in the Yukon in 1971 where he found a remote, abandoned hunting cabin to hole up in. He spent the next 4 years living off of the land and building up his bunker with only the voices of his vet community on the radio he set up to keep him company and infiltrate his mind. Some say Hank was lost during the war, some say it was his years in The Yukon but what really pushed him over the edge was when he started seeing things out of a fairy tale.
At first he thought they were just overgrown bears but once he tried to shoot one and quickly learned that it would take more than a rifle to take it down. He decided to try his booby trap method that he learned in Vietnam and realized that they were also smart. It took weeks to manage to take his first one down and was appalled with what he saw. It was something out of a nightmare. Right then and there in the pool of monster gore Hank found his next war. He knew he needed to find and kill all of these things for the sake of humanity. He also knew that to stop them from coming he would also need to take down the government program that was spawning them. He easily got his war vet buddies on board and set off back to Seattle to wage his new war against monsters.
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