Introducing Jared

Here's a brief character bio for Jared, the muscleman of our special ops team:

Jared is the oldest of five kids—he has three sisters and one brother—from Flippin, Arkansas.  He grew up with all that famous southern charm, and although he’s not much of a rodeo cowboy, he does prefer the small town life more than city life.  His mother is very religious and very Catholic, and Jared and his siblings grew up going to mass on a regular basis.  Jared’s siblings kind of fell out of their religious practices as they grew older, but although Jared is not as faithful in attendance as his mother, he still has strong Catholic roots and attends mass as often as possible. His home is just minutes from Bull Shoals Lake, and he loves to go boating with his family.

Jared is a really thought-oriented person, and it takes him a good amount of time to come to a decision.  A lot of people think that because it takes him a long time to decide, he’s not very smart—but that’s just not true.  He always led his class at school, and he was Valedictorian when he graduated from high school.  Jared has always been interested in sports, especially football, and he finds that playing sports helps him to think better.  If he has a particularly problematic situation to work out, he finds himself in the gym, thinking and weight-lifting, more often than not.  He played football throughout high school as defensive end and helped take the team to state—making him something of a local hero.  He received a full-ride football scholarship to both Notre Dame and Virginia Tech, but because of his religious inclinations, he decided to go to Notre Dame.

While at Notre Dame, he double-majored in Anthropology and Psychology. He was continually drawn to careers in government agencies, finally deciding to join the FBI’s Special Agent Career Program in the Counterintelligence Division.  He worked there for three years before joining Grant’s special ops team (with outstanding recommendations from his superiors).  Although he is relatively new to the group, Jared has taken on the role of the big brother—especially where Polly and Angelina are concerned.  He is not technologically adverse, like Micro’s girlfriend, but he’s not completely tied to his computer either.  His softer, teddy-bear side comes out through photography, and he has a “secret” Pinterest account showing his love for that art form—he would die if Micro ever found out about it, though.