Name: Devin O'Connor
Race: Human
Gender: Male

Appearance:
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 205lbs
Hair: Auburn
Eyes: Grey
Age: 35
Distinguishing Marks: Shoulder Blade Tattoo, pin-up girl
Build: Average/Athletic

Personality:
~Psychological Profile Compiled by Counselor Gregor Ivanovich~

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Lieutenant O’Connor is somewhat of an anomaly among the survivors of the USS Laffe. While he suffers from moderate to severe post traumatic stress as do his comrades, and infrequent but severe nightmares of his time on Torma IV, he does not exhibit the typical emotional and often violent outbursts of his colleagues. Instead it seems he has drawn within himself – creating a careful and calm exterior that even outright provocation testing does not seem to crack. On the flip side, his responses to physical stress, such as hand to hand combat are extreme. He seeks to end the confrontation as quickly as possible with both brutal and effective methods, but never allows himself to lose emotional control

While he can appear, and function as a calm individual, the emotional well below the surface is apparently deep, and extremely tumultuous – and this examiner worries what might happen if someone did manage to roust this man’s temper. With the hard won combat experience that lasted almost two years on the surface of Torma IV, was well as well honed survival instincts, a minor altercation could turn deadly in the blink of an eye.

While there are still certainly emotional issues to deal with, the therapists all agree that Mr O’Connor is physically fit for duty, and is in fact, as they like to call it – a ‘Jack of all Trades’ which I understand is something fairly common in Operations Specialties and in Mr O’Connor’s case perhaps exacerbated by his time on Torma IV where he was called upon to do any number of things simply to survive

However, even with these caveats, Mr O’Connor passes all marks for mental health set forth for a Starfleet Officer, and while this panel has its reservations about any and all survivors of the USS Laffe, we have no choice but to pronounce the Lieutenant fit for duty.
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Background:
Devin O'Connor was born aboard the SS Highlands, a tramp freighter owned and operated by his parents Aric and Salem O'Connor.  His formative and teen years were spent as a crewmember aboard this family run ship, and because of it he has spent more time in space then he has ever spent on the ground.

As a young man Devin rebelled (as many young people do) against his parents and enrolled in Starfleet Academy, more to get away from his father's influence at the time then any serious interest in Starfleet.

He Majored in Starship Operations and Minored in General Space frame Engineering.  While at the academy he continued his one true passion, flying small craft - and by senior year had earned a spot as the number 4 man on the Academy Flight Demonstration squad.  While not as renowned as the flight leader position, the four position in the Squad's classic diamond maneuvers is the most difficult flight position, and spoke highly of his command of spatial reasoning and precision flight.

After the Academy he was posted to the Utopia Planetia Yards, and assigned to Yard Operations.

He spent over a year in the yards, flying an untold number of ferry flights, and earning Helm Certifications in over thirty different ship classes as a yard pilot, as well as earning Ferry Certifications in multiple fighter types, and gaining his first live experience in a command role, as the senior officer in charge of shuttle bay operations, Alpha Section of the immense ship yards.

With the active outbreak of the Dominion War, Devin felt the urge to take a more active role in the defense of the Federation and its allies and applied for transfer to an active line ship. Within the month he was transferred to the USS Laffe – a Sabre class vessel and attached to the Operations department as a Senior Operations Officer.

The Laffe, like all Sabre’s had been designed as a combat vessel first, and anything else second. Tasked primarily as a commerce raider early in the War, the Laffe saw action repeatedly striking at lightly protected dominion convoys, both on its own, and with other vessels.

In ’74 the Laffe was re-assigned to the Recon wing of the 9th Fleet and began a series of deep penetrations into Dominion held space, leaving strings of stationary sensor arrays and mobile long range probes in its wake.

During one of these missions, in which they were looking to pinpoint the location of a as of yet elusive senor array code named Argolis, the USS Laffe was cornered in the Torma system over Torma IV – a moderately garrisoned L class planet that the Jem’Hadar had turned into a weapons producing facility.

The Laffe was heavily damaged in the ensuing fight, and the Captain in a desperate bid to save his crew from certain death or imprisonment ordered the Laffe to attempt an atmospheric entry. It was successful, after a fashion. The Laffe unsurprisingly was a total loss. But between some truly inspired work at the helm by Flight Control, and near perfect manipulation of the remaining available power and structural integrity fields by Operations and Engineering, the ship crashed on the planet surface without any further fatalities. Fully one third of the ships crew had been killed in the desperate fight, and over half of the remaining population was injured, but they managed to collect what supplies and arms they could and fled into the dense jungles of the planets interior.

Starfleet Command listed the Laffe as Missing a week later, and after three months deemed her lost with all hands.

For nearly two years, the slowly dwindling crew of the Laffe fought a guerilla campaign against the Jem’Hadar, and it wasn’t until almost four months after the signing of the Treaty that ended the Dominion war that a Marine Detachment arrived on the planet to secure the suspected Jem’Hadar weapons factories and found the twenty surviving members of the USS Laffe crew, dirty, diseased and extremely cagey, it took the Marines almost two days to get the Laffe crew to agree to leave their secluded bunker where they’d accumulated weapons and supplies.

All twenty were Transferred first to the Hospital ship the USS Hopkins, and then shipped to Earth. Three more died en-route from injury and disease. The remaining 17 spent the next three years in extensive recovery and therapy. Most took Medical discharges. Five did not.

Now Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Devin O’Connor was one of them. Given the battle field promotion to full Lieutenant, Devin accepted the permanent rank of Lieutenant (JG) after release from therapy and was transferred to the USS Valley Forge, a Norway class vessel as a Senior Operations Officer.

While his performance in his duties was well within expected parameters, Devin’s extremely reserved manner grated on his colleagues and within six months his Department Head approved a request of transfer writing him a glowing recommendation to Starfleet academy.

After passing the qualifications exams Devin became a primary piloting and power systems management instructor, and it was his time here that re-awakened the person locked inside the cold hard exterior shell. By 2382 he was promoted to Senior Instructor and was attached to the Academy Flight Demonstration Team as an advisor and coach and due to his extensive list of helm qualifications was put in charge of flight control and primary operations qualification testing for four ship classes.

By 2384 he had been passed over by the promotions board three times for promotion to Lieutenant, and was well on his way to a fifth. While the board recognized both his near full recovery from the USS Laffe incident, and his effective leadership and training of a large segment of young Starfleet officers, his lack of formal command experience in the field prevented his promotion.

Seeing that the only way to continue to advance his career was to return to the fleet, he applied for a transfer to a duty ship of the line. It took over a year, but eventually the application came through and he was transferred to the USS Lancelot, and assigned as the Assistant Chief Operations Officer

Service Record:
05/16/2350: Birth
08/01/2368: Enrolled in Starfleet Academy
05/21/2372: Granted Rank of Ensign, and Assigned to Utopia Planetia
11/15/2373: Transferred to the USS Laffe as a Senior Operations Officer
04/03/2373: Action over Torma IV – USS Laffe crash landed on surface
04/10/2373: Listed as Missing in Action
05/01/2373: Listed as Missing in Action, Presumed Dead
03/23/2376: Recovered along with surviving crew of the USS Laffe – transferred to the USS Hopkins for initial treatment and transport to Earth
04/30/2379: Released from extended care from Starfleet Medical: Earth and returned to duty
05/15/2379: Transferred to the USS Valley Forge as a Senior Operations Officer
11/30/2379: Transferred to Starfleet Academy as a Instructor Candidate
04/01/2380: Received primary Instruction Certification
05/01/2380: Began work as Primary Flight Control and Power Systems management Instructor
08/01/2382: Promoted to Senior Instructor, began Coaching of the AFDT
12/01/2382: Placed in charge of Qualifications for Sabre, Norway, Galaxy, and Nebula class Basic Piloting and Helm Control and Operations and Power systems management for fourth year cadets
05/13/2384: Applied for Transfer back to Fleet duty
06/20/2385: Accepted position aboard the USS Lancelot – Assistant Chief of Operations