Editing James Adams (section)

==Military career==
===US Marines===
After months of training, at Camp Pendleton, James entered the service as a Corporal. Having shown significant ability as a leader, and a proclivity for the healing arts, he was designated a Hospital Corpsman, and assigned to Camp Mujuk, in South Korea.

In the fall of 2024, during the [[Great Korean Famine]], civil unrest led to the deployment of military forces to the Korean DMZ, due to increased hostilities from North Korea.

===="One Hour in Hell"====
Several weeks into his posting, masses of North Korean citizens overran North Koreans military installations, in a mass protest, due to the famine, and growing number of starving civilians. The populace swept south, amassing in the DMZ near Panmunjom, trying to reach the southern border, and find food. As the posted joint force held them at bay, a strange rumbling from the ocean went unnoticed, to the southwest. A strange hulking figure, hundreds of feet tall, emerged from the water and began to lumber inland. When the civilian refugees finally saw the figure, panic ensued. All military forces were ordered to hold the line, and keep the gates shut, defending South Korea from the incoming monster. When James saw the monster, and the chaos erupting amongst the refugees, he defied standing orders, activating the gate controls of the border fence, raising them and allowing people in.

The alarms and lights of the border gate caught the attention of the hulking leviathan, drawing it closer. As it advanced, the civilians began to panic, stampeding each other, resulting in massive crowd crush event, with casualty estimates ranging into the tens of thousands.

====Aftermath====
Clandestine government forces quickly descended on the DMZ, quietly sweeping the entire event under the rug. All formal military forces were compelled to sign NDAs, and were discreetly paid off. 

James, for his heroism and fast-action in the face of an unknown adversary, was given a field promotion, advancing two ranks, to Lieutenant, while also being nominated for a Silver Star, Legion of Merit, and a Purple Heart for a series of broken ribs suffered trying to calm the refugees.

Within 48 hours, the promotion, and all awards were stripped, and James was Dishonorably Discharged from the Marine Corps, who disavowed all knowledge of a creature descending on the border crossing. James was given a life sentence at Fort Leavenworth, which was suspended, following his signing of an NDA.