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Jack Bauer Reimagined

Jack Bauer is a counterterrorism operative for a specialized anti-terrorist unit within the United States Department of Homeland Security.

Name: Jack Bauer Occupation: Special Agent, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Counterterrorism Taskforces Unit) Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record Place Of Birth: Long Island, New York, USA Marital Status: Married Known Relatives: Phillip Bauer (father), Shirley Bauer (mother; deceased), Teri Bauer (wife), Kimberly Bauer (daughter), Graham Bauer (brother) Group Affiliations: United States Army, Central Intelligence Agency, Counterterrorism Taskforces Unit Base of Operations: Washington, D.C.

History: Jackson Phillip Bauer was born and raised in Long Island, New York to industrialist Phillip Bauer and Shirley Bauer (née Jackson). Jack's mother died when he was a child and he was never close to his father, nor to his older brother Graham. He also shunned his family's wealthy background. With plans of a career in law enforcement, he majored in criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. A couple of months before graduating from John Jay, Jack's girlfriend, Teri, became pregnant. A few days after Jack graduated, he and Teri were married. To support his new wife and soon to be born daughter, Kim, Jack enlisted in the Army shortly after the wedding.

Jack enlisted for the Infantry military occupational specialty and decided he wanted to become a U.S. Army Ranger. During weapons qualification training, he displayed a natural ability for handling all types of weapons. He graduated from basic training as an honor graduate and was recommended for Officer Candidate School. After OCS, he went on to the Infantry Officer Basic Course and then Airborne School. After airborne training, Jack was sent to the Ranger Orientation Program. Upon graduation of ROP, he was assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment. After attending and passing Ranger School, he became a rifle platoon leader within the 3rd Ranger Battalion. Jack rose to the position of company executive officer after a year. Soon after being promoted to captain and becoming a company commander, Jack became interested in joining Special Forces (Green Berets). With his wife's support, he pursued it. Upon completing the Special Forces Assessment and Selection course, he was accepted for the Special Forces Qualification Course at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center.

Jack's dedication and finely tuned field skills led to his selection as Distinguished Honor Graduate of his course. As a Green Beret he commanded a 12-man Operational Detachment Alpha in the 5th Special Forces Group, a unit whose area of operation is Southwest Asia and Northeast Africa. During his tenure with the United States Army Special Forces, he honed his field skills as a Green Beret in the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. Jack earned a Silver Star for his actions during one covert operation.

Retiring from the Army after eight years, Jack immediately decided to pursue employment with the Central Intelligence Agency. Before Jack could join the Agency, he had to go through background checks, take the entrance exam, and go through a series of interviews and psychometric, numerical reasoning, psychological, psychoanalytical, aptitude, and polygraph tests. Upon passing the entrance and psychological examinations, Jack was selected to serve in the Ground Branch of the Special Activities Division. After an orientation period, Jack was sent to the CIA Special Training Center ("The Farm") for intensive operational training. There, he went through the Basic Operations Course, which trained him in various so-called "tradecraft" skills, including infiltration and exfiltration techniques. While at The Farm, Jack received exceptionally high marks for physical endurance, logic, and psychological ops exercises.

After training, Jack became a paramilitary operations officer. His clandestine and covert duties took him around the world. He took part in paramilitary interdiction efforts against drug smuggling between Burma and the United States (resulting in a letter of recommendation from his superior) and four days of black ops reconnaissance into North Korea, penetrating military compounds. Jack worked with members of a DIA Strategic Support Team to penetrate and gain intelligence on Iranian military and suspected unconventional weapons installations. He also saw covert action in the Philippines, Indonesia, Iraq, Colombia, Somalia, and East Timor. His exemplary work caught the attention of a few high-level U.S. government officials. Three years into his career with the CIA, he was personally contacted by Richard Walsh, the Director of the Department of Homeland Security's Counterterrorism Taskforces Unit with an offer of employment.

The Counterterrorism Taskforces Unit is a rapid reaction force created to respond to the current most active and imminent international or domestic terrorist threats to U.S. security. As a police and intelligence liaison unit, the CTU represents the collective intelligence capability and full muscle of the United States government to help neutralize and prevent terrorist actions against U.S. interests on a global level. It's agents assists foreign and domestic police, military, and intelligence agencies in helping prevent attacks against Americans and American interests at home and abroad.

Worried about the effect his hectic schedule in the CIA was having on his marriage and out a genuine interest, Jack accepted the job offer and joined the Counterterrorism Taskforces Unit as a "special agent." In Jack's capacity as a CTU special agent, he works in the field, assisting both American and foreign intelligence and law enforcement agencies in their counterterrorism efforts. With field operations being his purview, he has participated in everything from "hands on" field investigations to enhanced interrogations to leading tactical assaults and even undercover assignments. As a premier counterterrorism agent, Jack Bauer has helped save the United States from devastating terrorist attacks on numerous occasions.

Height: 6'0" Weight: 178 lbs. Eyes: Green Hair: Blond

Strength Level: Jack Bauer possesses the normal strength level of a man of his size, height and build who engages in extensive regular exercise.

Abilities: Jack is a trained professional killer. As tough and accomplished as the average commando, he fights with tenacity and has a high tolerance of pain. Jack is an expert in combat jujitsu, can kill with a chop of his hand and with the well-placed pressure of his fingers. He is also an expert marksman and pistol shot. An excellent knife thrower, Jack knows how to use knifes and he knows how to use razors. Along his impressive physical skills, Jack possesses a keen intellect and memory. He has extraordinary investigative skills, having been expertly honed in observation and deduction. Long before he joined the CTU, Jack has used a system of mnemonics, where he can store thousands of pieces of information of any kind to memory or filed away, available for immediate recall, in the computer of his memory. He is also skilled with languages, and speaks fluently in Spanish, French and German, and has a passable understanding of Arabic and Russian.