Alessio Vitale

## Appearance

Alessio is depicted as having bald blue eyes, short slightly styled black hair, with relatively sharp features and a neutral tan-ish skin tone, complete with an athletic build. He tends to wear simple clothing often seen sporting a bullet resistant vest if he's operating on duty for Vulgus International.

## Biography

### Early Life

Alessio was born on the 7th of July 1990 in the prosperous city of Naples in the province Campania to a Roman Catholic family. According to himself while growing up Alessio was outgoing and fairly extroverted playing a few sports, becoming a notably talented golf player. Alessio's family would eventually relocate to the province of Tuscany in search of a better pay grade. Alessio would befriend Caesar Urbani at an unknown point while living in Tuscany. Other than that not much is known about Alessio's early life.

### Enlisting / Military Career

After turning 18 Alessio would sign up for the Italian Army on the 8th of July 2008. Once he had began training Urbani was known as one of the most talented recruits at his base, with accuracy almost comparable to experienced soldiers. After the completion of his military training Alessio would go on to join the 66th Airmobile Infantry Regiment designated "Trieste".

On the 10th of October 2010 at the rank of private, Urbani would end up stationed in Western Afghanistan, as part of the the NATO International Security Assistance Force. Much to his own surprise the regiment he was attached "Trieste" would soon end up engaged in a heavy and destructive firefight against a swarm of heavily armed local Taliban fighters. The squad leader SGM Moretti ordered Alessio and the other soldiers to remain cautious but still fierce. During the skirmish Alessio was hit by some shrapnel debris while taking cover, despite this he quickly shrug off the wound and continue fighting the Taliban forces alongside his squad, while providing suppressive fire Alessio would catch a confirmed enemy fighter in the chest, mortally wounding him. The shootout would continue with both sides viciously exchanging fire for another 8 minutes. Alessio then witnessed the second in command of the squad SGT Sartini shoot an enemy fighter in the head, who was presumed to be high ranking or important to the enemy. Upon this the Taliban forces would retaliate as the commander ordered a counter attack charge of 6-7 aggressive fighters, while him and 2 of his guards remained in cover.

After 20 intense minutes of all of the attacking fighters had been wounded or killed by the Italian squad. The squad would begin assaulting the position of the commander. The Taliban commander and his 2 guards choose not to submit and kept fighting for another 8 minutes, 1 guard was immediately shot dead by Sergeant Major Moretti who led the counter assault, followed by the hostile commander himself who was struck in the neck by one of Alessio's fellow soldiers.After the skirmish had cleared the squad Alessio was attached to had received casualties of 3 low ranking soldiers 2 were expected to make a full recovery while the other one PVT Roth had been mortally wounded following the charge, with 5 others being lightly injured including Alessio himself and the squads second in command SGT Costa, while the enemy Taliban forces had suffered an estimated casualty rate of 9-14 fighters, including the commander 8 of which were killed in action. Following the skirmish, the squads commanding officer Captain Trapani who oversaw the from engagement from base, would convince high ranking Italian Army officers to reward members of Sergeant Major Angelo's squad including Alessio with a silver medal of valor.

Alessio would return to base in Northern Italy where he would remain patrolling and practicing for the next 2 years before formally discharging from the Italian Army on the 3rd of December 2012 aged 22 at the rank of Senior Corporal Major, in pursuit of a high paying carrier