Sierra Harmon

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Sierra used to live in Australia with her family, mum, dad and twin sister, Marut.  She was 30 minutes older, so something she would tease about.  Her mother is Tibetan, who had been in Australia on a tourist visa.  The mother Priya had met their father, Frank, during a footy grand final in Melbourne.  Things picked up from there so the mother was a citizen by marriage, they had twins.  The father would leave the country sometimes though for business trips.  One of these trips he had an one night stand and got another woman pregnant.  He had a son that no one in the family knew about.  So the father sometimes took more "business trips" to spend time with the half son.

Eventually Frank moved his family to America for a job promotion, better pay and so on.  The twins were teenagers at that time.  Sierra wanted to be a pilot after watching so many movies and tv shows like Jag.  Marut didn't know what she want at the time.  So when she was 19, Si went into flight training and university.  She had to work part time to afford it on her own.  Parents helped with some of the cost but they preferred the kids to make their own way without too much hand outs.

Eventually though she got into the air force.  After all that training she had to give at least 10 years commitment.  She was intending on sticking with it for life.  Or until she got too old and just be a grounded officer.  

During the rare time off, she would crash at Marut's apartment who she shared with Aziz above their Private Eye business in Crawford City.  Also during that time she became a regular at the strip club where she became friends with Holden Sinclair.  He would become a big part of her life later.

Over the years on the job she flew the jets into combat, shows, demonstrations, etc.  Sometimes she even flew helicopters for supply drop offs but she preferred the planes, mainly the F-15 Strike Eagle. In her last mission her plane was shot down and her seat wouldn't eject.  She had survived with broken bones (leg, arm, collar, ribs) and head injury.  After a long time recovering in the hospital, she had developed vision problems at night.  Nyctalopia also called night-blindness, is a condition making it difficult or impossible to see in relatively low light.   She was forced to retire from flying since her vision was now affected.  She was given honorary discharge. 


With the money Sierra saved from working and a big pay out from the crash, she opened a small tourist flight business.  She would fly tourists around the area, and sometimes took them to other airports for a fee.  Also when asked to do so the ex-air force would do emergency pick ups to the hospital when the hospital helicopter was busy elsewhere.

Her business is set in Willow Creek since there is plenty of space compared to the city.  She lives at the small "airport" since it saves having to travel.  When she has the time off she takes trips into town, sometimes crashing at her twin's place.  When the business is shut down due to the slow seasons, winter, she works in the city as a stripper that Holden had got her into.  The blinding strobe lights did give her killer headaches the next day but the money was worth it.  Of course she never went on stage alone.  She was always paired up with Holden so he could keep an eye on her since she was more or less walking on stage blind

During one of her holidays while working before she had travelled a bit and came across Willow Creek.  Sierra had thought to retire there one day, not as quickly as she had though.  She had planned on moving there in a few decades, but now here she was.

She owns a Bell 412 helicopter.  Due to the size of it, she used insides connections in the air force to find one at a steal of a price.