Leonard Schaeffer

Private 1st. Class Leonard Schaeffer is the main character of Red Letter Days and a member of the UNSC Marine Corps. Leonard would be transferred to Second Base shortly after his promotion to PFC where he would fight in some of the first battles of the Human-Covenant War.

Early History
Schaeffer grew up in New Macedonia on the UNSC core world Skopje. Schaeffer was born to a middle class family in the inner city; his mother being an office worker and his father a bar tender. Schaeffer received adequate grades throughout middle school and high school, and was neither popular nor unpopular. His grades in school were mostly C's and B's except for an A he received in English consistently each year. Schaeffer led a surprisingly uneventful life throughout his childhood and this and his grandfathers war stories from his time in the Marine Force Recon led Schaeffer to seek out the military.

Schaeffer originally attempted to go straight to UNSCMC Recon but his recruiter convinced him to go through at least four years of marine corps before making the decision. Schaeffer agreed and decided to follow the recruiters plan.

During boot camp; Schaeffer was initially one of the worst marines in the camp. Schaeffer had no idea how difficult boot camp would be; something that his grandfathers stories tended to ignore. After a week, Schaeffer's performance increased drastically as he came to terms with it and pulled through.

Out of boot camp, he was promoted to PFC and vowed to get out of the military ASAP after his four years were over. Schaeffer was then transferred to Second Base where he would see the first action of his career, participate in Operation TREBUCHET and then in one of the first battles of the Human-Covenant War.

Trivia

 * Schaeffer has thanatophobia and is very afraid of dying. Being born on Skopje before the Human-Covenant War; he had expected to be stationed in the inner colonies where there was little insurrection.