CAPTAIN NICK PRESTON - A 28 year old Captain with a cool exterior and a hot head. Especially when compromise is in the air. A rancher's son from Wyoming, Nick was a born leader. He enlisted in the Army when he was 18. He spent two years in the mud in the Armored Branch where he was an Army Tank driver in Germany and witnessed the end of the Cold War. Seeing no future on the ground he switched to the Ranger Aviation Branch where he learned to fly Cobras. And later, selected for Special Ops and the top-gun airship of the Army - the Apache Helicopter. He was decorated in Desert Storm where it was clear he was a born leader, an instinctive, spontaneous loner. Exactly what you want in a General, not a Captain. Later, after again proving himself in East European Conflict of 97 he was banished to the D.R.M.O.(Boneyard) after speaking out publicly against The President. She wanted to shut down Military bases right after the conflict. He was on his way there when the Big One hit. Nick functions best in conflict. Now he has one. Played by Dolph Lundgren