Arriving in the Zone after hours of being cramped up in a BTR-95, you're dismounted at the checkpoint. You're a fresh recruit out of basic training, you weren't told much about where you weren't being deployed and from the looks of it, it's obvious that the Zone is no "walk in the park" and a "friendly neighborhood".

As your buddies are sent off to do their tasks, you are pointed at the one heavily armored officer who no one dares to approach, so far you're told he's called "Rusty", he's been in the zone for the longest and not many know about his past aside from that, many speculate that he may as well live at the Cordon checkpoint with a mood as cheerful as the zone itself