Air Battle Force

Cast of Characters

Major General Patrick McLanahan, commander, First Air Battle Force (1 ABF)

Brigadier General David Luger, deputy commander, First Air Battle Force

Brigadier General Rebecca Furness, commander, 111th Attack Wing; commander, 1 ABF/Air Operations

Colonel Hal Briggs, commander, 1 ABF/Ground Operations

Sergeant Major Chris Wohl, NCOIC, 1 ABF/GO

First Lieutenant Mark Bastian, Ground Ops squad leader

Gunnery Sergeant Matthew Wilde, ABF Ground Operations

Colonel John Long, 111 AW Operations Group commander

Colonel Daren Mace, commander, Fifty-first Bomb Squadron (QB-1A)

Captain William “Wonka” Weathers, munitions chief

Major Samuel “Flamer” Pogue, AC

First Lieutenant Dean “Zane” Grey, AC

Staff Sergeant Marty Banyan, munitions

Senior Airman Todd Meadows, munitions tech

Colonel Nancy Cheshire, commander, Fifty-second Bomb Squadron (EB-52 and AL-52)

Colonel Kelvin Carter, operations officer, Fifty-second Bomb Squadron, AL-52 AC

Major Frankie “Zipper” Tarantino, AL-52 MC

Thomas Nathaniel Thorn, president of the United States

Robert Goff, secretary of defense

Richard W. Venti, USAF general, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Douglas R. Morgan, director of Central Intelligence

Edward Kercheval, secretary of state

Darrow Horton, attorney general

Franklin Sellers, secretary of the treasury

Maureen Hershel, deputy secretary of state (Operations), acting secretary of state after Kercheval’s resignation

Isadora Meiling, assistant deputy secretary of state, Hershel’s assistant

General (originally Captain) Wakil Mohammad Zarazi, member of the Hezbollah sect of the Taliban, warlord of eastern Turkmenistan

Colonel (originally Lieutenant) Jalaluddin Turabi, Zarazi’s second in command

Abdul Dendara, his aide

Captain (originally Lieutenant) Aman Orazov, Turkmen army and Zarazi’s henchman

Kurban Gurizev, president of Turkmenistan, former chairman of Supreme Council (Majlis, or legislative branch)

Saparmurad Niyazov, former president of Turkmenistan

Lieutenant General Boris Kasimov, Russian liaison to the Turkmen government

Valentin Gennadievich Sen’kov, president of the Russian Federation

Ivan Ivanovich Filippov, minister of foreign affairs

Sergey Yejsk, national security adviser and secretary of the Security Council

Army General Nikolai Stepashin, commander, Ministry of State Security (chief of all intelligence bureaus)

Vladimir Rafikovich, minister of federation and internal affairs

Alexander Bukayev, minister of defense

General Anatoliy Gryzlov, chief of staff of the armed forces

Major Boris Bolkeim, Tu-22M-3 bombardier

Captain Mikhail Osipov, Tu-22 DSO

Colonel General Yuri Kudrin, commander, Second Heavy Bomber Division, Engels Air Base

Colonel General Boris Kasimov, the Russian liaison to the Turkmen general staff