Editing Melody Leigh Haverstaad (section)

===Crewman School===
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<tr><td>'' Melody Haverstaad after Graduation''</td></tr>
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Melody entered Crewman School with an energy she hadn’t put into anything for years. The School itself is only six months long, with another 2 – 16 months depending on necessary job-skill training. A far cry from the 4+ years she would have had to spend in the Academy to become an officer. 

Her time there was spent studying and raising hell, not necessarily in that order, and she was brought up on disciplinary action no less then three times, though for nothing more serious then breaking curfew, usually to jog beyond the campus limits in San Francisco.

She joined just before a scuffle with the Cardassians, which colored her view after the six months of boot camp, for she chose Starship/Starbase Security as her vocation. Security Training was another six months of high-intensity skill-training, most of it physical, and she excelled in it all. She was rated as a Master-Phaser by the end of her year at school, and she was further rated for Starship & Ground Combat with standard Tactical Forces. Her wanderlust set upon her after this year’s worth of training and she bypassed the extra Ambassadorial Guard training her marks qualified her for, though she would later qualify during her stint on the USS Destiny at her Senior-Chief’s urging. Upon finishing her schooling, she was immediately transferred as a full Crewman to the USS Marlboro, which had put into Utopia Planitia for a standard 10 year refit and was nearly ready for redeployment.