Mai Ong is a 19 years old condecorated Combat Engineer of the Vietnamese People's Army. Her dream was to change people's lives for the better by constructing a better world for them, that's why she aimed to become a civil engineer. The army had better opportunities for her dreams to become true, so she enlisted.
She achieved her dream and also specialized in explosives engineering and robotics, because she thought these branches complemented itself.
She had a golden opportunity to apply her knowledge when ONU called for Vietnam to help on South Sudan as Peacekeepers. There she managed to improve Sudanese lives with many infraestructures improvements for the community.
But that wasn't the motive for her condecoration. One say, a group of heavy armed prospectors attacked the area were Mai's battalion was in. They were easely repelled and the commander was about to order a pursue. Some officials, Mai included were suspicious on how easy the prospectors were repelled and were thinking it might be some sort of ambush.
Just in case, Mai sent out her drones to sweep the area for explosives.... and she found many of them, which her neutralized all.
With their ambush twarted, the commander ordered the pursue and many illegal prospectors were captured, they denounced whom paid them for the attack, a man known as FIREFLY, a famous terrorist and bomber.
Since then Mai Ong is know for "The combat engineer who defeated Firefly" and was comended for this. She was a bit bumed by that, because she only did her job, in comparison, the infraestructures she did for the Sudanese community were made by passion.
For having beat up FIREFLY and for her selfless concern on improving human lives, she was invited to join the famous elite international group known as GIJOE.
She's began her military career as a Lieutnant thanks to her academic background.