CAST OF CHARACTERS

AMERICANS

PATRICK S. MCLANAHAN, Lieutenant-General, USAF (ret.), partner and president, Scion Aviation International

KEVIN MARTINDALE, former president of the United States, silent owner of Scion Aviation International

JONATHAN COLIN MASTERS, Ph.D., chief of operations, Sky Masters Inc.

HUNTER NOBLE, VP of development, Sky Masters Inc.

JOSEPH GARDNER, president of the United States

KENNETH T. PHOENIX, vice president

CONRAD F. CARLYLE, national security adviser

MILLER H. TURNER, secretary of defense

WALTER KORDUS, White House chief of staff

STACY ANNE BARBEAU, secretary of state

U.S. MARINE CORPS GENERAL TAYLOR J. BAIN, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

U.S. ARMY MAJOR-GENERAL CHARLES CONNOLLY, division commander, northern Iraq

U.S. ARMY COLONEL JACK T. WILHELM, executive officer, Second Regiment, Allied Air Base Nahla, Iraq

ARMY LIEUTENANT COLONEL MARK WEATHERLY, regimental executive officer

ARMY MAJOR KENNETH BRUNO, regimental operations officer

USAF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GIA “BOXER” CAZZOTTO, commander, Seventh Air Expeditionary Squadron

KRIS THOMPSON, president and CEO of Thompson Security, private security company at Allied Air Base Nahla, Iraq

FRANK BEXAR, privately contracted intelligence officer

CAPTAIN KELVIN COTTER, USAF, deputy regimental air traffic management officer

MARGARET HARRISON, privately contracted UAV director

REESE FLIPPIN, privately contracted weather officer