Jack Simmons

Jack Simmons is a American Character roleplayed by Zer0

Early Life
Jack Simmons, the eldest of his siblings, was born during a whiteout blizzard, on April 27th 1989, in Norfolk Virginia. He grew up in a lower-middle class family. His parents divorced when he was young, not too long after they had conceived his second sister, Maddie. He lived primarily with his mother, Anne and visited his father, James, every other weekend until he was 17. He was a very smart kid, with an IQ of 132, however his work in school did not reflect this. He had no idea what he wanted to do for a career. One day, while out walking, he watched as a Naval Destroyer docked at the shipyard in Newport News, Norfolk. He was very intrigued and eventually got in contact with a Navy Recruiter and the rest is history.

Naval Career
Simmons signed up for the Navy and chose operations specialist as a designation. He went through the Physical Screening Test (PST) and his scores for each test were well above average, and for some, even better than the recommended standards. He was accepted with-in a month of his PST to go to boot camp. During his time in Great Lakes Illinois he was required to take PST again and past with even better results. He moved on to the Person Fitness Test (PFT) and also past that with flying colors. He passed boot camp and received his orders for BUD/s. During his pre-training phase (Post boot camp and Pre BUD/s) he started physical training that got him into better shape for BUD/s, this pre-training lasted 8 weeks. After completing pre-training he found himself at BUD/s orientation and started Physical Training Rehabilitation and Remediation (PTRR). PTRR is a gruesome 5-6 week training to thoroughly test in all the basics from the PST once again. After his 6 weeks of PTRR, and being able to keep up and not drop out, he was able to move on to what is called phase 1.

This is where the real training starts. During this phase, is where most quit or get injured. This phase is where you will meet challenges regularly such as four mile timed beach runs, 2 mile ocean swims, BUD/S obstacle course, log PT, hundreds of reps of pushups, pull-ups, and ab exercises. And of course the dreaded hell week. Hell week is a 120 hour long event designed to test your desire to be a Navy SEAL. You may sleep a total of 3-4 hours in five days and log more than 200 miles of running, swimming, and paddling boats. This phase is the ultimate test of your ability to be a team player. Simmons was injured, 40 hours into hell week, when one of his classmates dropped a log on his leg because he was took weak to hold the log up anymore. Simmons was looked at by the onsite medic and the medic determined that Simmons could continue if he was willing. Simmons, never able to back down from any challenge, pushed through and completed the rest of the gruesome 80 hours while injured, unable to walk 100% correctly. After hell week he advanced to phase 2. Nothing really notable happened during phase 2 and phase 3. He went onto SEAL Qualification Training (SQT) and was able to pass this training above recommended standards. He was picked by a seal team in 2003 and operated during the Iraq war.

Everything after this point is classified (Not unlike most seal information) and is unable to be discussed / not accessible to the public. He has never said what team he was on, or what type of missions he was deployed for. Before his honorable discharge, he obtained the rank of Senior Chief Petty Officer (E-8).

Law Enforcement Career
After leaving the Navy behind, he wanted to do something closer to home. Where he could start building a family and a life. A year after returning home, he applied for the New York Police Department. His application was accepted March 13th 2019 by the Chief of Police and his interview was done March 14th 2019 by Lieutenant Quinn Clark. He was hired on the spot and was hired as a Cadet. His training was super easy, at least compared to his previous trainings in the Navy. He impressed his FTOs and quickly found himself at the rank of Probationary Officer. He went on to train with basic vehicle pursuits and robberies. And once again, quickly promoted to Officer I. Went through 2 more trainings for advanced pursuits and advanced robberies. Not too long after, was promoted to Officer II. After achieving Officer II, he had the ability to pick a sub-division. He decided to go into the elite Traffic Enforcement Division (now known as Highway Patrol). During his time in Traffic Enforcement Division, he unknowingly met a soon to become long time friend, Jimmy Lynch. Traffic Enforcement Division, at the time, mainly consisted of three active agents; Jack Simmons, Jimmy Lynch, and Harry Ames. They would patrol and hangout off duty together and became very close. Ames had wanted to make Simmons Assistant Lead of the division, but was unable to because of Simmons' promotion to Patrol Sergeant on June 9th 2019. Lynch soon after left and became a Detective. Simmons worked as a Patrol Sergeant along side his co-sergeant Vexx Vanarcho. Simmons remained at sergeant for roughly 3 months. He woke up one morning and headed to work to find that most of the high command had been cleaned out by the commissioner and replaced by other fellow supervisors. He was offered a Lieutenant position on September 9th 2019 and accepted without hesitation. Three days later, on the 13th of September 2019 he was promoted to Captain and worked along side his co-captain, Harry Ames, his former TED Sergeant. During this time the New York Police Department went through its first massive shift. With new leadership and command changes came and they came fast. Simmons helped first hand with these changes and helped with the implementation of them. On February 1st 2020, newly appointed Chief of Police, Jimmy Lynch (Simmons' former Sergeant, Lieutenant, and co-captain), offered Simmons the Assistant Chief of Police position, beside him, Simmons accepted this position without thinking twice. Very quickly it was decided, that a merge of State Police and the Police Department was to be done, under one command team again, up to this point they had been two separate departments. Completing this merge, made law enforcement consistent and unified. Simmons was joined by Chance Chandler and Josh Shepard as co-assistant chiefs. Jack Simmons is still in service with NYPD and is still currently ranked as Assistant Chief of Police.

Personality
Simmons prides himself being very outspoken and making his opinion known regardless of the possible backlash, he claims that to be one of his greatest qualities, however some would disagree. However he is still able to remain neutral when it comes to hearing others opinions, Simmons does not believe his opinions to be fact or correct. Simmons has a tough and soft side, as some of his close friends are aware of, he is human after all.