Cordell Burreson
Full Name: Burreson, Cordell
Service Number: SF-600616-420213-NE
Current Rank: Chief Warrant Officer, 1st Class (W-4)
Rating: Electrician's Mate
Current Billet: Engineering Specialist, Task Force Sierra, Gold Fleet
Race: Human
Born: Solarion IV colony, 13 February 2342
Age: 77 Terran Years
Height: 1.80 m
Weight: 105 kg
Hair: Red-Brown, Greying
Eyes: Green
Faith: Second Reformation Roman Catholic
Family:
- Spouse: None.
- Children: None.
Other relatives of note:
- MCPO Helena Burreson Edwards
Note: Both sets of grandparents and his aunt and uncle were killed in 2368 during the Cardassian attack on Solarion IV. Parents deceased (old age)
Education:
- Home schooled; worked as field hand on family farm
Academic Record:
- Star Fleet Naval Basic School
- Star Fleet Naval department training aboard USS LEXINGTON as damage controlman
- Star Fleet Naval Engineering Training School as Electronics Technician
- Star Fleet Naval Computer Training School, correspondence courses
- Star Fleet Naval Telecommunications Training School, correspondence courses
- Star Fleet Naval Information Technology School, correspondence courses
- Star Fleet Naval Enlisted Leadership School
Official Star Fleet Record:
| 600616 | Enlisted in United Federation of Planets Star Fleet |
| 600931 | Completed Basic School |
| 601005 | Reported aboard USS LEXINGTON, NCC-1703-C |
| 610301 | Promoted to crewman apprentice (E-2), training as damage controlman |
| 610430 | Reprimanded for fighting with shipboard marines. |
| 611201 | Promoted to crewman (E-3), rated as damage controlman (DC) |
| 611225 | Reprimanded for fighting with shipboard marines. |
| 620115 | Entered Star Fleet Naval Engineering Training School, Norfolk, VA, Earth |
| 620715 | Promoted to Petty Officer Third Class (E-4) after completing Petty Officer Indoctrination course |
| 620818 | Reprimanded for fighting while on liberty, restricted to base for remainder of training course. |
| 630520 | Completed SFN Engineering Training School, rated as electrician's mate (EM) |
| 630715 | Promoted to Petty Officer Second Class (E-5) |
| 630720 | Reported aboard USS WILLIAM DECKER, NCC-86351 |
| 631201 | Reprimanded for fighting with Andorian marines while on liberty at SB BETA. |
| 630215 | Reprimanded for tampering with gambling computers in Casino on SB BETA. |
| Reduced in grade to Petty Officer Third Class (E-4). | |
| 631019 | Citation for Conspicuous Gallantry for saving Commander Thomas Raynor's (CO, USS WILLIAM DECKER) life during away team mission on Andevian II. |
| 640127 | Reprimand for tampering with ship's records. CO suspects
involvement in smuggling ring on Beltane IX, but insufficient evidence to proceed with general court martial. |
| 640829 | Star Fleet Medal for saving the life of Lieutenant Roger
MacPharlan from mob on Castal I |
| 641001 | Promoted to Petty Officer Second Class (E-5). |
| 651005 | Entered Star Fleet Naval Enlisted Leadership School |
| 651225 | Reprimanded for fighting. |
| 671001 | Promoted to Petty Officer First Class (E-6) |
| 671008 | Reported aboard USS OLYMPIC, NCC-0100 |
| 700801 | Won inter-fleet boxing championship by knocking out LCOL Yizhak Hofi in the first round |
| 701015 | Promoted to Chief Petty Officer (E-7) |
| 701201 | Reported aboard USS CRAZY HORSE, NCC-31014 |
| 730908 | Awarded Star Fleet Cross for actions resulting in the saving of the ship during conflict with the Breen. Lieutenant John R. Brooks was decorated in the same action. |
| 731015 | Promoted to Senior Chief Petty Officer (E-8) |
| 740101 | Reprimanded for black marketeering. Sentenced to 6 months brig time. |
| Reduced in Grade to Chief Petty Officer (E-7) | |
| 740801 | Reported aboard USS LION, NCC-21939 |
| 751201 | Awarded Distinguished Service Medal for modifications resulting in improved computer efficiency. |
| 770502 | Awarded Silver Star for action on Panora against the Maquis. |
| 770815 | Promoted to Senior Chief Petty Officer (E-8) |
| 771225 | Brigged for 6 months for striking a Marine officer. Claimed it was accidental and that he had intended to strike the command master sergeant standing next to the colonel. |
| Reduced in Grade to Chief Petty Officer (E-7) | |
| 780701 | Reported aboard USS BELISARIUS, NCC-533 |
| 810815 | Promoted to Senior Chief Petty Officer (E-8) |
| 811001 | Reported to Utopia Planetia |
| 830115 | Reprimanded for failure to report potential computer tampering aboard new starships to allow a backdoor into computer systsms. No evidence supporting direct collusion could be found and the matter was handled at captain's mast rather than general court martial. |
| Reduced in Grade to Chief Petty Officer (E-7) | |
| 830201 | Reported aboard USS CENTURION, NCC-21934 |
| 830715 | Awarded Bronze Star for actions assisting in suppression of Klingon Separatists on Beta Thoridar. |
| Klingon award of ceremonial bat'leth for same action. | |
| 850909 | Awarded Star Fleet Commendation Medal for refinements to power distribution nodes that reduced interference with communication systems. |
| 860515 | Promoted to Senior Chief Petty Officer (E-8) |
| 880815 | Reprimanded for unauthorized modifications to comminications systems that resulted in black market operatives being able to exploit the communication system and bypassing security protocols. No evidence of collusion found. |
| Reduced in Grade to Chief Petty Officer (E-7) | |
| 890217 | Reported aboard USS BEOWULF, NCC-60014 |
| 920520 | Promoted to Senior Chief Petty Officer (E-8) |
| 961225 | Reprimanded for fighting while on leave at SB DELTA. Spent two weeks in sickbay recovering from injuries suffered when fighting a marine platoon single handedly. Nineteen marines also required hospitalization. |
| Reduced in Grade to Chief Petty Officer (E-7) | |
| 970301 | Reported aboard SB DELTA. |
| 991201 | Bronze Star for saving the life of Commander Calvin DeFalco after accident at Star Fleet Science. |
| 000615 | Promoted to Senior Chief Petty Officer (E-8) |
| 010101 | Reprimand for failing to secure docking back which allowed smugglers access to starbase. Evidence suggests that this was not an isolated incident, but no evidence directly linking Burreson to the smugglers was found. |
| Reduced in Grade to Chief Petty Officer (E-7) | |
| 080406 | Reported aboard USS PROMETHEUS, NCC-25005 |
| 100615 | Promoted to Senior Chief Petty Officer (E-8) |
| 141101 | Assigned as communications specialist attached to Gold Fleet command, Starbase BETA |
| 150828 | TAD, USS CIRCE, NCC-27000 |
| 160204 | Attached to Task Force Sierra, Gold Fleet |
| 181201 | Promoted to Chief Warrant Officer, 1st Class (W-4) |
Notes: The senior chief is a bit on the stocky side, but is not fat in any way. He is heavily muscled. He has the face of a prize-fighter. Even modern medicine has not been able to completely alleviate the effect of many broken noses and cauliflowered ears. Burreson is generally a good-humored man, but can be dangerous when pushed. His fighting style is not elegant and bears little resemblance to any organized for of martial arts, but it is an effective collection on moves learned from decades of street and bar fighting.
About eight years ago, for no clear external reason, the senior chief seems to have finally cleaned up his act. At about that time, he seems to have developed a friendship with a green security officer aboard USS PROMETHEUS. That officer, CDR Jack Danger, is presently XO of USS NOVA.
Burreson is one the the first generation of Federation citizens to have received life extension treatments. As such his physical age is, effectively, frozen in his late thirties/early forties. Unlike later generation recipients he actually looks like a fully mature adult in the prime of his life. Someone who receives third or forth generation treatments will look like they are in their late teens until they are about thirty and will still look to be in their mid-20's by the time they are 50.
--- An excerpt from "USS CIRCE: The Lower Decks perspective"
The new navigation officer on CIRCE looked like he might fit into the former and the new propulsion division commander seemed to be the latter. Of course Burreson knew well enough not to let first impressions color his perceptions too much. It was possible that the rating had really screwed up and tried to blame his passenger. Of course that seemed odd. Someone had probably just pushed the rating to keep a schedule and the rating let the officer do the pushing. It might not even have been -- and in fact probably was not -- the young lieutenant's fault. Burreson knew that he wouldn't have allowed himself to be pushed, even when he was much younger. Of course that -- and a propensity for fighting and drinking and gambling and unproven allegations of black marketeering and some question about unauthorized modifications to a holodeck -- explained why the 73 year-old Burreson was "only" a senior chief. With a wry internal grin that never reached his face he recalled that he had made senior chief an astounding 7 times before actually keeping the second star over his chevrons and that it had taken almost as long to keep the first.
Mark Twain once said, 'God protect fools and children.' The senior chief hoped devoutly that he was correct. And, while the crew of CIRCE weren't precisely children, they at least looked that way to Burreson who had grown up in a time when people actually looked their age and before life extending treatments meant that he would live another two centuries while his parents had both died in the last few year at less than 110. How interesting it would be if they did not revise the service stripes on the enlisted uniform. He already had 14 of them stretching most of the way up his forearm. It would become ludicrous long before he had 50.
