Brief Biography Of Holliday: Star Leader

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Holliday was born a normal child, he did decent in school, his parents loved him, and he was happy, until one day his dad went off to war as a paratrooper, his father never came back as his parachute plane pilot was a bit of a drunk and ended up killing his father during a para drop training exercise after he decided to bank the plane a little to far to the right causing his father to get sucked into the engines while jumping, after this Holliday was determined to become a pilot to prevent this from ever happening to another person. when he joined he had no idea what he was doing, he didn't know how a plane worked, how a gun worked, or anything for that matter, but by the end of training He proved himself to be a star leader and a damn good

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