Holtz, Kurt Anselm | ||
MAJ | Air Wing | |
Station | BS-114 Orion | |
Position | CO, VF-777 | |
Age | Sex | |
39 | M | |
Hair | Eyes | |
brown | grey | |
Tauron | ||
401-92-5560 | ||
A knight in shining armor is a man who has never had his metal tested.
-Unknown
Description
Standing just a shade under six and a half feet tall, with a frame that looks almost more befitting of a Marine than a Viper pilot, Kurt Holtz is a hard-faced man in his late 30s. Though his features retain a somewhat youthful cast, his face also bears the beginnings of crow's feet and worry lines that betray his age. When his dog tags are visible, a silver ring can be spotted on the chain along with the tags themselves.
Holtz obviously keeps himself well conditioned; his figure is trim and muscular, and he moves with the predatory grace of an experienced soldier. His dark brown hair is generally kept trimmed short, but his chin and jawline boast a seemingly perpetual five o'clock shadow. The man's eyes are a flinty shade of bluish-grey, and carry within them a look of intense focus and the promise of something volatile lurking under his collected exterior.
Background
Knocked down, but never out.
That might as well be Kurt Holtz's life motto; from humble origins and a rocky upbringing on Tauron, through a tumultuous military career and a disastrous marriage, Holtz has shouldered his share of burdens and trials throughout his life. He's worked his way up through the ranks to become an officer and a Viper pilot(and instructor, to boot), despite occasional brushes with the regs. Although little has ever come easily to the man, the things he's endured in his life have given him a sense of resiliency he regards as no small a source of pride.
Pride doesn't pay the bills, though; when Holtz's messy marriage led to a messy divorce, he had no house and barely enough possessions to fill his car. With nowhere else to turn, he went back to the place that had once given his life meaning: the Colonial Fleet. The Fleet might not have had much need for a long in the tooth retread Viper jock, but nevertheless his application to resume his commission was accepted, and in short order he found himself whisked out to the Seventh Fleet Anchorage to join his new assignment: The 777th "Lucky Strikes" Viper squadron on the Battlestar Orion.
Service Record/Personnel File
- Personnel File/Station History
- Achievements/Commendations
- Reprimands
- Medical Record
- Family
- Personality Profile
Year | Rank | Station | Notes |
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1984 | Recruit | CFAB Andross, Tauron | Enlistment, Basic Training |
1984 | Recruit | CFAB Radix, Virgon | Technical Training (Starship Gunnery & Ordnance) |
1984-85 | Crewman | Battlestar Triton (BS-39) | Gun Crew |
1985-87 | Specialist | Battlestar Triton (BS-39) | Promoted to Specialist during tour |
1987-88 | Petty Officer 3rd Class | Picon Fleet Headquarters | Ordnance Handler |
1988-89 | Petty Officer 2nd Class | Picon Fleet Headquarters | Promoted to PO2 during tour |
1989 | Petty Officer 2nd Class | CFAB Erebus, Picon | Officer Candidate School |
1989-90 | Ensign | CFAB Nike, Caprica | Flight School |
1990-92 | Ensign | Escort Carrier Tannerman Ocean (CEC-91) | Viper Pilot |
1992-93 | Ensign | CFAB Argolis, Sagittaron | Viper Pilot |
1993-94 | Lieutenant JG | CFAB Argolis, Sagittaron | Promoted to LTJG during tour |
1994-95 | Lieutenant JG | Battlestar Chimaera (BS-81) | Viper Pilot |
1995-99 | Lieutenant | CFAB Nike, Caprica | Flight School Instructor |
1999-2004 | Lieutenant(inactive) | - | Mustered out (honorable discharge) |
2004-2005 | Lieutenant | Battlestar Orion (BS-114) | Viper Pilot |
2005 | Captain | Battlestar Orion (BS-114) | Promoted to CPT on 6 Feb 2005 |
2005 | Major | Battlestar Orion (BS-114) | Promoted to MAJ on 4 Apr 2005 |
Other Information
- Enlisted Years: He couldn't get accepted into the Fleet Academy, so Kurt got his career started on the enlisted side as a rating. Thus, he's no stranger to what some might call the less refined side of the fleet. As a result, he doesn't always come off in the same way as an average, Academy-graduate officer.
- Flight School: Holtz spent time as an instructor at the Fleet's main Flight School campus on Caprica during his first term as a commissioned officer. During his four years on the job, he helped train hundreds of pilots, many of whom are still serving today(or were, before the Fall). Love him or hate him, few of his students found him forgettable.
- Rowdy Times: There's something about a good fight that Holtz finds irresistable. He's far from a bully or a malcontent, and won't force a fight upon someone who clearly tries to avoid one, but it doesn't take much to get his fists flying, as the many notations on his disciplinary record will attest. (Though he has mellowed out — some — in the years since the end of his original term, so it remains to be seen whether he'll be the same thorn-in-the-side on Orion as he was on earlier postings.)
- Civilian Life: In the five years since he mustered out, Holtz's personal life has been up and down. He's flown commercial star liners and even served as a civilian flight instructor on Caprica for a time. He just got out of a nasty divorce with his wife, to whom he was married for seven rocky years. (There might have even been some infidelity involved on either or both sides.)
Associates
- Vipers
- Raptors
- Deck
- Marines
- Engineering
- Medical
- Sciences
- Tactical/CIC
- Civilians
- The Dead and Departed
Holtz's Jukebox
Title | Artist | Lyric |
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Kashmir | Led Zeppelin | i've been flying, ain't no denyin', no denyin' / all I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground / and my eyes fill with sand, as i scan this wasted land / trying to find, trying to find where i've been |
Aces High | Iron Maiden | running, scrambling, flying / rolling, turning, diving, going in again / run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die / run, live to fly, fly to live, aces high |
The Missing | Ministry | the last days / the time has come / the last rites / of what we've become / so watch yourself / and watch what you say / the martyr dies / so what's at stake? |
Bad Blood | Ministry | wild lives / the big surprise / we get our clues from what / the funhouse mirrors authorize / a ray of thought turns happy endings into mud / where there's denial, there's bad blood |
Tod und Teufel | Die Krupps | geniesst eure sünden / im rhythmus der maschinen / lasst den teufel tanzen / solange ihr noch könnt / tod und teufel fürchten uns nicht (enjoy your sins / The rhythm of the engines / leave the devil dancing / so long as you can / we fear neither death nor devil) |
Speed of Sound | Warlock | good-bye to your slow-creeping days / nothing will stand in my way / racing faster, breaking out of this mad prison-cell / faster, just like a flash out of hell |
Silver Machine | Hawkwind | i just took a ride / on a silver machine / and i'm still feeling mean / oh, do you want to ride / see yourself going by / the other side of the sky? / you gotta know where i've been |
Masters of the Universe | Hawkwind | i'm charged with cosmic energy / has the world gone mad or is it me? |
Spacelab | Kraftwerk | (instrumental) |
If | Gravity Kills | like a soul kept on your shelf / but you keep it there for someone else / and it all becomes so clear / you're the one you fear |
Mars, The Bringer of War | Gustav Holst | (instrumental) |
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Total (posted) log count: 123.