Michael Webber

"'The average trooper tells me that long-range engagements are for pussies. But when you're sending accurate shots from a kilometre out while the enemy can't shoot back? They're helpless. Helplessness creates fear. Fear creates mistakes. I punish mistakes.' - Michael after being asked about marksmanship in the Mountain Raiders."

Michael Markus Webber is an active-duty officer in the Normanland Defence Force Army (NDF-A) and the commander of the 1st Advance Recon Commando Regiment's 1/1 Company.

Military service, 1997-2002
Following the beginning of the Jarvus Theatre, Michael enlisted in the Army in 1997, aged 18 as a sniper. He successfully passed both the Army Basic Entry course and the School of Marksmanship. The instructors at both courses were impressed enough by Michael's leadership and individual abilities that they recommended him for OCS; a year later, Michael officially joined the Army in late 1998 as a Second Lieutenant.

Michael's first assignment was to the 3/6th Battalion as commander of the Battalion's sniper platoon. The unit served for two years in the Kowloon Peninsula. Michael was reassigned to the 4/15th Battalion in the Atlantic Theater, again as a platoon sniper commander. The battalion saw action over the northern part of Ervakia; Michael would be reassigned by the time of the Lightning Wave strikes in 2004.

By the end of his service with the 3/6th and 4/15th, Michael had 82 confirmed kills.

Military service, 2002-2008
Upon being awarded the Sniper Silver II badge, Michael was offered a place in Selection for the 3/72nd Battalion, Mountain Raiders. Michael excelled in the Selection course and became a member of the Mountain Raiders in late 2002, in addition receiving a promotion to First Lieutenant.

By the time of the 2002 classes' completion, Raiders were serving in southern Ervakia (3/72/1 and 2 Company) and Normanland's north island (3/72/3 and 4 Company). Michael was placed on 3 Company and sent to combat Republic forces in Greene City; it was here where Michael met Alex Darach (at that time a regular grenadier) and Matthew Truman, both future members of Rapier Squadron. Webber and Truman were acting as a recon team while Darach had been separated from his unit after a building collapse, the latter being found by the Raiders and tagging along as a guard.