Red Storm Rising Study Guide

Red Storm Rising

Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy

Red Storm Rising Characters

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  • Colonel General Pavel Leonidovich Alekseyev, SA– first 2IC-Southwest and then Commander in Chief, Western Theater. Later made Deputy Minister of Defense and Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces.
  • Commander Edward Morris, USN– Commanding officer,USS Pharris , laterUSS Reuben James

    . A sub-hunter of renown, a dangerous and clever tactical innovator.

  • Lieutenant Commander Jerry O'Malley, USN– helicopter pilot, USS Reuben James . Past master sub-hunter and anti-submarine warfare tactician. Goes by the code name "Hammer" when he is flying. Incredibly skilled with the dipping sonar of his Seahawk helicopter.
  • Commander Daniel X. McCafferty, USN– Commanding officer,USS Chicago

    , a Los Angeles class attack submarine.

  • Sergeant First Class Terry Mackall, US Army– M1 Abrams tank commander, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment on the German front. Receives a battlefield promotion to 2LT and become executive officer of his tank company.
  • Mikhail Eduardovich Sergetov– Candidate (nonvoting) Member of the Soviet Politburo and Energy Minister, later General Secretary of the Soviet Union.
  • Lieutenant Commander Robert A. Toland III, USNR– NSA analyst. Promoted to commander just prior to the outbreak of war. He is the officer who makes the intelligence discovery about the Soviet oil shortage.
  • First Lieutenant Michael D. Edwards, USAF– Meteorological officer, Keflavík Air Base, American evader on Iceland. Leads intelligence gathering and guerrilla group in Iceland. His code name is Beagle, and he receives a Navy Cross from a USMC general for his brilliant conduct of a mission for which he wasn't trained.
  • Sergeant James Smith, USMC– Company Clerk, Keflavík Air Base, American evader on Iceland. Second in command of Edwards' group.
  • Private Garcia, USMC– Infantryman, Keflavík Air Base, American evader on Iceland
  • Private Rodgers, USMC– Infantryman, Keflavík Air Base, American evader on Iceland
  • Vigdis Agustdottir– Icelandic civilian rescued by Beagle Edwards and his American intelligence-gatherers from Russian rapists.
  • Captain Ivan Mikhailovich Sergetov, SA– Alekseyev's aide-de-camp and Sergetov's son. Promoted to major during the war.
  • Major Amelia "Buns" Nakamura, USAF– An F-15C pilot who becomes the first American female fighter ace (and third female ace overall, after two Soviet WWII pilots) by shooting down threeTu-16 Badger

    bombers while on ferry duty and later using ASM-135 anti-satellite missiles to destroy at least two Soviet naval radar reconnaissance satellites. She also becomes the first Space Ace because of her satellite shoot-downs.

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