Serik Alenev

Serik Adilet Alenev (: 84704-09405-SA) is a non-commissioned officer and who served during the . Alenev most notably fought in the months-long , during which he and other UNSC personnel assaulted an compound to prevent the deaths of thousands of unevacutated civilians.
Born on in 2516, Alenev enlisted in the at 18, serving in the before transferring to the ODSTs in 2536. He finished ODST selection and training in time to be deployed during the , spending several weeks in combat. His unit would continue to be deployed against Insurrectionists until the attacked in 2542, which would be Alenev's first experience fighting the alien hegemony.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Serik Alenev was born on September 20, 2515, in the city of in the Province of Niyet on . The youngest of five children, he was raised in a multi-generational household, with his mother's parents also residing in the home. Serik was raised multilingually, and grew up speaking his parents' native Kazakh, but also learning Russian from his grandparents, and only learned English from school and his peers outside of home. His parents were both employed by the local spaceport: his father was a traffic control manager and his mother, a retired UNSC Army soldier, was a security contractor, who also did consulting work for other spaceports around the planet. Serik and some of his siblings would occasionally accompany their mother on her business trips across the planet, frequently visiting and in particular. 
While religion did not play a major role in his parents' lives, Serik's grandparents were both devout Muslims and ensured he and his siblings attended mosque frequently. When Serik was 15, he and the rest of his family travelled to Earth and performed Hajj. While on Earth, the Alenev family also visited New York City, Berlin, and Moscow, as well as several cities in Kazakhstan. 
At the age of 19, after graduating from secondary school, Serik followed in the footsteps of his mother and older brother by enlisting in the UNSC Army. He successfully passed Airborne selection and was assigned to the , at that time stationed on .
===Early Military Career===
===Alluvion Campaign===