Jake Jensen

Specialized Military Training

## Background

### 1989 - 2011: Jake Jenson

Jake Jensen is publically known as the child of business mogul Graham Jenson & socialite Laurel Jensen. His mother formerly worked at the Iceberg Lounge, a popular nightclub & restaraunt in Gotham operated by the Penguin. One night, she caught the eye of his father. After coming back to the club a few times, Graham offered Laurel a new life & asked her to quit her job. Laurel did as she was asked & soon began living the life of a trophy wife & socialite.

Now the honest truth is that Jake is the result of Graham's affair with an unknwon woman. He had discovered his wife's affair & their eldest child's paternity shortly before. So in an effort to get "even," he went on to have a child of his own & had Laurel raise the baby as hers. When Jake was eight, he gained a little brother but at the cost of his mother's life.

His father was never a cruel person to them, mostly just stern & all about work. But something shifted in him after his mother's death. Graham became an evil man, even to his kids. Luckily, he hired a nanny so their time with him was very limited. Their father's cruel nature led to the siblings being closer than ever with Charlotte promising to take both of them after she graduated. Jake was on board with their deal, as he had been ready to leave that household. When he turned eighteen, he decided to enlist in the military to not be as much of a burden on his sister. He was worried about his brother but the nanny promised to watch after the young boy. After a long talk, Jake gave his brother a long hug & promised to write to him as often as he could.

Jake then went off to the United States Military Academy West Point. During his last year, he received word that his father & younger brother were killed in a fire. He returned home for the funeral & spent some time catching up with his sister before returning to school. Jensen finished at West Point with a degree in Computer Science with a minor Systems Engineering.

### 2011 - 2013: Jake Jenson

Though it was obvious to anyone that Jake's expertise was technology, he was adamant about learning everything the army had to offer. His technological skills & ability to make everyone burst into laughs made Jensen very well liked wherever he went. He was even asked to join a black-ops team but asked for more time so he could learn more. Though most team leaders didn't take no for an answer, Major Clay understood the boy's desire. In time, Jensen mastered all of the communication equipment & learned everything he could about computers but also learned how to shoot every gun the military offered.

These skills eventually led to him being attached to the Joes, a newly formed covert special ops unit. Jensen was assigned as their communications specialist, taking on the name Pinball in the process. Jensen became crucial in many missions for the Joes as his specialty came in handy when identifying equipment. He helped them take out Cobra's encampment's radar capabilities, identify what sort of equipment Cobra was experimenting with & realized that a Cobra robot had mobile transmitters in his head.

### 2013 - 2016: Pinball

His good work with the Joes led to Clay, now a Lieutenant Colonel, taking a second shot at getting Jensen as he was now forming a new team. Wanting a role that would allow him to be in the field more, he accepted & became a member of Clay's elite black-ops unit. His ability to never get frustrated & to be prepared for anything made him a crucial member. He still frequently hung out with the Joes, especially after he starting dating & later proposed to Courtney Krieger (aka Cover Girl).

Clay's unit went on to have many successful missions but one major hiccup. After three years together, the team was forced to go underground after they were framed for treason & the murder of twenty-five children.

## Romantic Relationships

* Courtney Krieger: Girlfriend (2014 - 2016); Fiancée (2016)

## Powers & Abilities

* **Communications:** Jensen is familiar with all NATO & Warsaw Pact communication gear, as well as most world export devices & covert electronics. He is the link between the battlefield & headquarters, having the ability to call in an air strike, provide artillery coordinates, request a Med-Evac or find an extraction site. He constantly monitors all radio frequencies, providing situation reports to the command center. He also has the ability to crack enemy codes & to jam their transmissions.
* **Computer Operation:** In addition to mastering every form of communication equipment, he has also learned everything he could about computers, cracking complex encryption algorithms & tracing transmissions.
* **Demolitions**
* **Disguise:** He's pretty good with disguises & accompanies Roque on many of his scams, though Roque never asks him to come. He is capable of impersonating the voices of famous individuals & mimicking many different foreign accents.
* **Firearms:** He is a qualified expert in the M-16, M-1911A1 & MAC-10 (Ingram).
* **Engineering:** Jensen received a minor in Systems Engineering while at West Point.
* **Hand to Hand Combat:** In the army, Jensen learned a combination of techniques including Taekwondo, Muay Thai, Krav Maga, grappling & basic self defense against weapons in hand to hand combat. He has furthered honed his skills during his time with the Joes & the Losers.
* **Marksmanship**
* **Multilingualism:** Using his father's & military resources to his advantage, he has become fluent in many languages. He can speak Mandarin, German, Vlatavan, Spanish & Rhelasian (Korean). He can speak Markovic & Kasnian, but badly. He can also communicate in Morse code.
* **Vehicle Operation:** Jensen is the third best driver after Pooch & Roque. He knows how to hot wire vehicles, which is how they get around a lot.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* Jake met Courtney when he met the Joes out for drinks. The two hit it off & began dating. The difficult schedules, secret missions & long distance was not a problem for them. It actually seemed to work out well as Courtney had felt she had spent much of her last relationship constantly with her partner. When Jake was declared an enemy of the state & legally dead, the relationship was essentially ended. However, Courtney believes him to be innocent.
* Cougar rarely speaks & only speaks openly to Jensen.
* He is the hacker & communications expert of the team.
* Always the ever loving man of a million laughs (or so he thinks), his brash attitude tends to get him into tight spots.
* He never allows himself to get frustrated & believes that as long as he is prepared for anything, he can get any job done.
* Jensen has a habit of eating candy during missions.

## Notes

* Jake Jensen is a character from the Vertigo comics, *Losers*.
* Alvin Kibbey is the name of Breaker, a character from G.I. Joe & its related media. They both are telecommunications experts.