ALPINE
Mountain Trooper
Filename: Pine, Albert M.
S/N: 237-51-3844
Primary Military Speciality: Mountain Trooper
Secondary Military Speciality: Finance Clerk
Birthplace: Grenoble, France
Born to Algerian immigrant parents, Alpine, from an early age would stare at the mountains on the horizon, which rose in every direction, like a physical barrier between him and the world he wanted. He took up mountain climbing during college and continued as a recreational climber during his brief time as an accountant for a large publishing firm. The Action Force team gave Alpine the most hazardous of all conditions: with Cobra shooting at him!
Graduated Ranger School, Toulouse. Qualified Expert: M-11, M-14, M-60, M1911A1.
"Every time Alpine scales a sheer cliff face piton by piton, overcoming granite and gravity with muscle and persistence, he is symbolically climbing out of the quagmire of his past. That's why we send him up first on vertical assaults. He doesn;t take to being knocked down too easily."