Red Storm Rising - Characters in Red Storm Rising

Characters in Red Storm Rising

• 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, later USS Reuben James
• Commander Daniel X. McCafferty, USN — Commanding officer, USS Chicago
• 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.
• 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.
• First Lieutenant Michael D. Edwards, USAF — Meteorological officer, Keflavík Air Base, American evader on Iceland. Leads intelligence gathering and guerrilla group in Iceland.
• Sergeant James Smith, USMC — Company Clerk, Keflavík Air Base, American evader on Iceland
• Private Garcia, USMC — Infantryman, Keflavík Air Base, American evader on Iceland
• Private Rodgers, USMC — Infantryman, Keflavík Air Base, American evader on Iceland
• Vigdis Agustdottir, Icelander — Civilian, Rescued by the American evaders on Iceland
• 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 ace pilot by shooting down three Tu-16 Badger bombers and, using ASM-135 anti-satellite missiles to destroy two Soviet ocean reconnaissance satellites.