Captain Sanjit Rao

About

Battle scars and a steel-edged resolve define Captain Sanjit Rao, a military commander whose leadership springs from profound personal loss and unwavering commitment. Navigating the complex terrain of New Orleans with a tactician's precision, he transforms personal grief into a powerful motivational force that binds his troops through shared hardship and mutual respect.

Backstory

Three nights before his eighteenth birthday, Sanjit Rao discovered his sister Lyra's body floating face-down in the murky waters of Bayou St. John, her throat slit by smugglers who mistook her midnight photography hobby for surveillance. The police ruled it an accident, but the torn film scattered around her camera told a different story—one that would never see a courtroom. Abandoning his scholarship to Tulane's music program, Sanjit enlisted the next morning, carrying Lyra's final photograph: a haunting image of Spanish moss draped like funeral shrouds over the very bayou where she died. Years later, leading men through the jungles of Vietnam, he would hum the jazz melodies he once planned to study, turning his sister's lullabies into battle hymns that kept his soldiers alive when conventional tactics failed.

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