Where did the delusions of "Operation Fire Wings" and Corporal Bradly Stevens start at? To me he seemed to bring it up out of nowhere unless I missed a stream were he elaborated on it, because all I hear is Jace occasionally getting pissed and crying about holding Stevens split guts when someone insults him about it.
Oh, it started a very, very long time ago.
It began in the halcyon days of late 2012, during the early months of the Fuck Yeah Deagles saga. Jace was posting shit on his Tumblr every 12 hours or so; mostly erroneous/harmless shit like dumb pictures of cars, pictures of Deagles, and pictures of semi-naked women holding toy guns. Naturally, this was inviting a throbbing engorged tentacle of trolling which was busily raping Jace's psyche; the harder he tried to fight the trolling with internet-douchebag catchphrases and useless comment bans, the harder the trolls fought back with different (and increasingly embellished) pseudonyms. So, it came as a pleasant relief to Jace when, in the aftermath of a brief ragequit, he was met with a couple of guest posters, respectively calling themselves "Brad" and "Soap", who wove a rich story about how Jace's page reminded them of their time in Iraq in 2003.
Now, the more culturally attuned lurker might have chuckled at the reference to the hit HBO miniseries "Generation Kill", but not Jace. He gave MAXIMUM RESPECT to the chilled-out Marines, who in turn told him about their crazy buddy Ray, and about how bad it was fighting Ragheads at Nasiriyah.
At this point, Jace was already in the process of bringing together his CoD fantasies in the form of Tiberius Rising. The stories told by Brad and Soap were all Jace needed; Brad and Soap happily divulged stories of their fallen comrades including Specialist Timmy Smitts, to whom Tiberius Rising is dedicated.
This is the genesis of Bradley Stevens, but Jace didn't know it yet. It wasn't until the following year that Jace began to interweave his own story with that of Corporal/Seargeant/Commander Stryker (although he was already calling himself Jack Stryker on Social Media). It wasn't until Jace began to really come under pressure from the trolls that he really began to blur the lines between fiction and fact, and it wasn't until 20/08/13 that Jace decided for sure that he was going to enlist in the USMC (by which point he already had a DUI summons that would earn him the title of "Felon" - the achievement was worth 40G). Within a month, Jace had gone from Wannabe Marine to Future Marine.
Then, the Hater Hitlist and the Trial/Execution of ParkourDude91 happened, and Jace vanished for three months. When he reappeared in January 2014, Jace claimed that he had been with the Marines, and that he deserved respect because he had seen some shit, and his buddies had been killed in Afghanistan/Iraq/"the sandbox". However, Jace would provide scarce info on his deployment, not least because he
hadn't had time to make that shit up yet.
It wasn't until the Livestreams of the spring and early summer that Jace started talking about his "deployment", and he came up with the name "Operation Fire Wing" only a couple of months ago. He referred at numerous points to a fallen comrade; it wasn't until recently (like in the last 2 months) that this comrade was formally identified as Cpl. Bradley Stevens, apparently the victim of an Iraqi IED attack.
In other news, I have realised that I can talk about Jace with more knowledge and confidence than I can my own career plans. BRB minor existential crisis.
