Todd Buck

== Todd Buck ==
Todd Buck was an American Air Force officer and pilot who was a Colonel prior to the Great Collapse. Buck served in the Air Force for over two decades, leading an air wing from MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. He reemerged after his retirement, joining the Appalachian Resistance.
Buck was the leading commander of the Appalachian Air Force as a Colonel, directing the air forces and their teams from Toronto all the way to Harrisburg. After the Second Battle of Harrisburg, Buck was on the leading committee for the Appalachian territories. He oversaw military and civilian restructuring in the city, especially in regards to mobilizing air units for utility and reconstruction purposes.
After the death of General Krauss in the Battle of Cobleskill, Todd Buck was to be voted in as the head commander for the newly formed Appalachian Republic, working in conjunction with Secretary of Defense. However, Buck was exposed as being an informant for Seaboard. He was killed by Brian Burnett in a confrontation as he was attempting to flee using a private airplane. 
== Life Before the Great Collapse ==
Todd Buck was born on 11 September 1964, in Crestview Florida. He stayed in the state, moving south to attend university in Tampa. He already had sights on joining the Air Force, and did so after his graduation in 1982. Buck began flying tanker aircraft , building his reputation as a pilot and crew lead.
Buck met his future wife Catherine, the two getting married two years after. In 1994, as Captain, Todd Buck was transferred to a B-52 squadron. He continued flying KC-135 refueling aircraft, beginning to get into more administrative work as time went on. Buck's first child, Emily Buck, was born 15 June 1995. Because of the birth of his child, he pulled strings so that he could stay in the US instead of possibly being deployed to lead an air wing overseas. This was reinforced with the birth of Buck's second child, Alexander Buck, on 8 March 1998.
Buck was promoted to a Major, and continued his lead at MacDill AFB. He had two more children in the next years, Olivia and Jacob Buck on 22 September 2002 and 4 November 2006 respectively. Eventually he took command of the Refueling Air Wing, leading it as a Colonel until his retirement in 2014. He proceeded to purchase a summer home in Southwest New York for his family to stay in the warm months. When the Great Collapse began, he believed it to be a favorable place to live, learning all he could about homesteading. Buck's gut feeling came true, and the Jinanvirus caused more devastation than most imagined. In early 2019, the family caught the virus, and Buck's eldest son, Alexander, died from the disease.