Strike Force

CAST OF CHARACTERS

KEVIN MARTINDALE, President of the United States

MAUREEN HERSHEL, Vice President

ARMY GENERAL JONAS HARMAN SPARKS, National Security Adviser

JOSEPH GARDNER, Secretary of Defense

ARMY GENERAL WILLIAM GLENBROOK, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

DR. MARY CARSON, Secretary of State

KEN T. PHOENIX, Attorney General

CARL MINDEN, Chief of Staff

U.S. MARINE CORPS MAJOR-GENERAL ANTHONY LEWARS, White House Press Secretary

GERALD VISTA, Director of Central Intelligence

LT. GENERAL PATRICK MCLANAHAN, special adviser to the President

BRIGADIER GENERAL DAVID LUGER, asst. special adviser to the President

BRIGADIER-GENERAL REBECCA FURNESS, commander, First Air Battle Force (air operations), Battle Mountain Air Reserve Base (ARB), Nevada

BRIGADIER-GENERAL DAREN MACE, Air Battle Force operations officer and EB-1C mission commander

U.S. AIR FORCE COLONEL NANCY CHESHIRE, AL-52 Dragon aircraft commander

U.S. AIR FORCE RESERVE MAJOR WYATT CROSS, EB-52 Megafortress aircraft commander

U.S. AIR FORCE RESERVE CAPTAIN MARK HOURS, EB-52 mission commander

AIR FORCE RESERVE CAPTAIN MARGARET “MUGS” LEWIS, EB-1C Vampire aircraft commander

BRIGADIER GENERAL HAL BRIGGS, deputy commander for operations (ground operations), First Air Battle Force, Battle Mountain Air Reserve Base, Nevada

MARINE CORPS SERGEANT MAJOR CHRIS WOHL, NCOIC, First Air Battle Force

U.S. ARMY FIRST LIEUTENANT CHARLIE BRAKEMAN, Tin Man commando

ARMY NATIONAL GUARD CAPTAIN CHARLIE TURLOCK, CID engineer and pilot

U.S. ARMY SPECIALIST MARIA RICARDO, Tin Man commando

COLONEL MARTIN TEHAMA, commander, High Technology Aerospace Weapons Center (HAWC), Elliott Air Force Base, Nevada

CAPTAIN HUNTER “BOOMER” NOBLE, XR-A9 Black Stallion aircraft commander, Elliott Air Force Base, Groom Lake

FIRST LIEUTENANT DOROTHEA “NANO” BENNETON, Ph.D., Black Stallion mission commander

U.S. AIR FORCE CAPTAIN WIL LEFFERTS, XR-A9 mission commander

U.S. NAVY LIEUTENANT COMMANDER JACK OLRAY, XR-A9 pilot

U.S. NAVY LIEUTENANT LISETTE “FRENCHY” MOULAIN, XR-A9 mission commander

STACY ANNE BARBEAU, senior U.S. senator from Louisiana, ranking member of Senate Armed Services Committee; Colleen Morna, her aide

GENERAL CHARLIE ZOLTRANE, commander, Eighth Air Force

GENERAL COLLEEN EDGEWATER, commander, Air Force Matériel Command

ANN PAGE, Ph.D., former U.S. senator, astronaut, and space weapon engineer

COLONEL KAI RAYDON, Space Shuttle aircraft commander

CIVIL AIR PATROL CADET MASTER SERGEANT DOUG LENZ, Cadet Lieutenant Katelyn VanWie’s NCOIC

MAJOR-GENERAL HESARAK AL-KAN BUZHAZI, former chief of staff of the Iranian military

CIVIL AIR PATROL CADET LIEUTENANT KATELYN VANWIE, aka Shahdokht Azar Assiyeh Qagev, heir presumptive of the Peacock Throne of Iran

IMAM SAYYED MOSTAFA SHĪRĀZEMI, religious leader of Iran

MASOUD AHMADAD, president of Iran

BRIGADIER GENERAL MANSOUR SATTARI, Buzhazi’s aide

BRIGADIER-GENERAL KAMAL ZHORAM, commander of the Second Rocket Brigade of the Pasdaran-i-Engelab, or Revolutionary Guards Corps

GENERAL HOSEYN YASSINI, commander-in-chief, Iranian armed forces

FLIGHT CAPTAIN ALI-REZA KAZEMI, transport pilot

LIEUTENANT GENERAL MUHAMMAD BADI, commander of the Pasdaran (Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps)

COLONEL/GENERAL ALI ZOLQADR, replacement Pasdaran commander; Major Kazem Jahromi, his aide

AYATOLLAH HASSAN MOHTAZ, Director of the Supreme National Security Deputate and military adviser to the Faqih

MAJOR PARVIZ NAJAR, Lieutenant Mara Saidi, Katelyn’s bodyguards

COLONEL JAMAL FATTAH, chief political officer, Iranian embassy, Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan

LEONID ZEVITIN, president of the Russian Federation

GENERAL KUZMA FURZYENKO, Russian chief of staff