Kapitein Bram Maatsen, Korps Mariniers (NPC)Nationality: Dutch
Current Assignment: Executive Officer, Task Force 47
Age: 34
Originally from the Dutch Antilles, Bram Maatsen joined the Netherlands' marine corps for travel and adventure. Small fast boats, parachutes, and automatic weapons were bonuses as far as he was concerned. Aside from a few token contributions to UN peacekeeping missions, the Netherlands weren't likely to go to war.
That attitude lasted until the autumn of 2001, when the country started taking its NATO treaty obligations seriously again. Since then, Maatsen has seen combat in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Congo, and the Somali coast, and he's left fragments of his carefree youth strewn along the path of each deployment. In 2005, he was selected for the Unit Interventie Mariniers, the Dutch maritime counter-terrorist force.
An experienced commando and small unit leader, Captain Maatsen is an effective but restless XO for the task force. The unit's small size means he usually dons the additional hat of operations officer, deploying forward to supervise and support the direct-action teams, but he chafes under the need to stay in the "back office" rather than going into the field. His diction is mechanically precise in every language he speaks (of which there are several), a bit of overcompensation for a former speech impediment that was surgically corrected in his early twenties.