Paulsen

"Paulsen and both pilots are dead, sir."

- Gaz

Paulsen was an SAS soldier who appears in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. He is thrown out of the helicopter and killed with the two pilots during the beginning of "Hunted", as the helicopter carrying "Soap" MacTavish and the other members of SAS is hit by a missile and crashes on a field. You only see Paulsen lying dead on the ground after the crash; he is never seen alive. He is only mentioned as Gaz is ordered to do a casualty report.

It is possible to pick up his G36C on the ground. His dogtags were retrieved by Nikolai. However, he is not seen in "Blackout", which occurs just before Hunted. It is unknown how he could have been with Soap, Gaz, and Captain Price if he was not present before when the helicopter picked them up at the end of Blackout, however one possibility is that he stayed in the helicopter the whole time, as generally there is more than just two pilots in a helicopter's crew.

Trivia

 * In several missions you will see friendly SAS soldiers that look exactly like Paulsen. This is because they are generic SAS character skins, and in any other mission, the skins are randomly loaded.
 * Some players proclaimed that they have seen Paulsen in the helicopter in the early part of the mission "Crew Expendable".
 * In the mission Hunted, at the beginning when you get shot down, you can see a soldier while going down which sits next to you. If you look closely it is not Gaz, it might be Paulsen, however like above is most likely just a generic SAS skin.
 * In Blackout, when you are nearing the house where Nikolai is in, Price will say in subtitles, that Gaz cut the power, everyone else with me. Even though there is only Price, Gaz, and Soap, Unless he refers to Soap as Everyone, then it is possible that Paulsen was meant to be in Blackout, but was cut out.
 * Paulsen is more of a redshirt character as he dies even before fighting or saying a line.