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Communications ID:NAVY-THETA-37 Status:Active service Date of Birth:8/7/779 A.S. Place of Bith:Southside district, San Mateo, Planet Los Angeles.
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PERSONAL HISTORY:
David Franklin Hale was born to a military family. His father, Jonathan Andrew Hale retired from the Navy aged 56 in the year 810as, ranked Captain, after 34 years in the service. He had encouraged both his sons David and Daniel into the Navy.
David, the eldest of three siblings (David, Daniel and Lily), started his school life at San Mateo Primary Academy a few miles from the southside district family home. His teachers found him a talented if distracted student. He progressed through his school years without event, with good, yet not exceptional grades. After school he attended West Point Military Academy for three years, then immediately entered active service at the rank of Captain. He scored highly not only in strategic and tactical theory, but also in gunnery and fighter piloting.
The then Commodore John Talon quickly spotted the young Captain's talent and brought him into the Liberty naval tactical corps, however David Hale requested a transfer to frontline service, prefering to lead from the cockpit of a Guardian fighter, rather than the bridge of a larger vessel, claiming to have a "Better veiw of the unfolding situation if in the thick of a battle". This unusual command style won Hale a great many victories against the rogue 522nd battlefleet and internal dissidents.
In the year 815as David Hale seemed to drop off the Liberty Navy's roster. Hale himself has been hesistant to answer questions on this period of his career, claiming be to unable to answer questions due to file classification.
During this period of time, David's younger brother was removed from the Navy's personel roster and disappeared completely. No details are available on this event, although it is presumed that Lieutenant Commander Daniel Hale is dead.
In the year 816as Hale's name is reinstated on the personel roster at the rank of Vice Admiral, and he was brought into John Talon's high command team alongside Talon himself and the then Admiral Christopher Phelps. The Navy was in something of a command crisis at the time. Hale's work helped to reorganise the command heirarchy and stabilise the Navy's position as the most powerful military force in Sirius. Christopher Phelps requested a demotion shortly following this, leaving John Talon and Hale as the sole high command members at this time.
In 817as Hale, still ranked Vice Admiral, was instrumental in the negotiation of the Treaty of Curacao between Bretonia and the Republic of Liberty. This wide ranging treaty allowed much greater co-operation between the Liberty Navy and Bretonian Armed Forces, and as such he was awarded an MBE by the Bretonian Crown 'For services to Inter-House Diplomacy'.
Later that year Admiral John Talon retired from the service after a long and distinguished career, promoting David Hale to his rank as his last act as Admiral.
Hale immediately set about further reforms in the command heirarchy of the Liberty navy, promoting the recently readmitted Christina Robinson to the rank of Commodore, Sarah Willows to the rank of Admiral, and Ryan MacTavish to the rank of Vice Admiral. This group of men and women have not only been at the forefront of military thinking in Liberty, but are regarded Sirius-wide as excellent military minds, despite certain inconsistencies in the behaviour of Sarah Willows and Christina Robinson. The four of them, through David Hale's leadership have become an extremely cohesive command unit. Willows, on her request, has recently recieved a demotion to Captain and has subsequently gone on extended leave, with Vice Admiral Galen Anderson taking her place in the high command structure, and a promotion to the rank of Admiral for Ryan MacTavish.
Hale's career and significant achievements have earnt him the respect of his fellow officers. Many however have called him wreckless and leveled accusations of favoritism with regards to his choice of high command officers. The tabloid papers have repeatedly implied the possibility of relationships between him and the female members of his high command, although no conclusive evidence has been provided for this.
Hale always has allowed a slightly less formal and more personal method of command to prevail within the Liberty Navy, and some have called this unprofessional. Hale himself however counters this with the claim that "A happy force is an effective force". It seems he doesn't limit this to non-command officers or enlisted men.