Liana Buckner

Liana’s parents raised her with the expectation that she would join the military as soon as she graduated high school. She never really saw another path in life as an option due to her need to make her parents proud of her. She stayed active in high school with every sport she could sign up for, but had to leave behind her love of sports and her old teammates when she graduated. Once Liana had joined the military, she rose through their ranks at a rapid pace. She had grown up with her father acting as drill sergeant and making sure she could complete any training course given to her with ease. Liana’s parents were unsatisfied with her achievements until she joined the Special Forces Green Berets. She was given the title of Weapons Sergeant and took her new position very seriously.     Liana grew very close to her 11 other squad members as she spent every waking moment with them while deployed. The squad was often split in two teams of 6 to patrol a wider area, and Liana grew much closer with the 5 teammates she was often grouped with. Everyone was treated with equal authority under the Commander as they had all worked hard to get where they were. Even when they were home on break from deployment they often checked up on each other and went out for drinks as often as possible.     After a couple years spent with her squad on and off deployment, they received a 3 year mission in Somalia Africa. Her squad was there to gather intel on the nearby armed forces and to determine whether or not they were working with the sea pirates. The locals were hard to blend with at first, but after a few months spent in the area Liana was able to adapt to their ruthless, almost bloodthirsty behavior. Most of the locals were common criminals, but there were groups of terrorists in town and kidnappings were a common occurrence. The pirates mostly stuck to the docks when they weren’t out on the water, which caused Liana and her team to prowl the docks at night in search of information.     After 2 years and 8 months spent in Somalia, Liana’s team had collected almost everything they needed to complete their mission. The only thing left on the agenda was for her team to infiltrate the terrorists to find any last details that were missed during their previous investigations. It was decided that the Operations/Intelligence Sergeant and the OIC would infiltrate the group for a handful of weeks while the rest of the squad continued their surveillance like normal.     After 2 weeks of their squad member’s infiltration, the group was ambushed while out on patrol. Most of the group was killed in the ambush, but Liana and a few others were taken back to their base to be interrogated. After a month of torture for information, Liana was the only surviving squad member. Liana had been left in a cell with the bodies of her murdered squad and left for dead. One of the men inside the base discovered that Liana was still alive and without guards, and decided now was his chance to “get the action he’s been missing” while she couldn’t fight back. As soon as the male was bent down over her, she used all her strength to kick him in the groin and strangle him once he was down. She slowly dragged herself out of the base and was able to contact her squad’s emergency evacuation with a nearby stash of supplies her team had hidden.     After Liana was home and her wounds were healed, she was advised she could only go back in the field if she passed months of mandatory therapy. Liana attended her mandatory therapy until she passed her evaluation to return to the field. Her parents hadn’t come to see her since she had first returned from her mission and was in the hospital, though they did occasionally call to make sure she was still on track with her therapy to be qualified for returning to service. She decided that the deaths of her only real family was too much and she moved to Las Vegas to get away.     Shortly after moving to Las Vegas, Liana decided to look for work. She had hardly started to look and put her resume out there when Jack approached her with a job offer. Liana was hesitant at first that she wouldn't be able to handle a gun again, but quickly fell back into the routine of things. Her only requirement for working under Jack was that she work alone, never on a team.       Liana has now been living in Las Vegas for 5 years, working under Jack. She refused to be part of a team due to her trauma and loss. She was happy working by herself and would rather be out on a mission than at home. Her routine was interrupted when Jack sent her to assist his team of “chosen ones” on a mission. After the reassurance that it wouldn’t be a regular thing, she set out to “babysit” Jack's team. However, she was roped into joining the team by also becoming a chosen one and has loved almost every minute of having a family again.