Thomas A. Merrick

"The consummate professional, Merrick is the field commander of the Ghosts. Highly decorated, he was the youngest person to complete SEAL training at 17 years old. His demeanor often seems cold and harsh, but his track record shows a history of getting the job done."

- Biography.

Captain Thomas A. Merrick is a character that appears in Call of Duty: Ghosts. A Navy SEAL before the ODIN strikes, Captain Merrick is the field commander for the Ghosts.

Early life
Thomas Merrick was born in 1985, who was born in the third generation of his family to enlist in the U.S. Military, after his father, SSgt. Nicholas "Bull" Merrick, who was killed in Fallujah and after his grandfather, Clyde E. Merrick, who was killed in Normandy during Operation Neptune in World War II. Thomas Merrick was one of the youngest to complete SEAL Training at age 17. He was then assigned to SEAL Team 2, then over the years, he was assigned to a Tier One group under the command of Captain Gabriel Rorke and Lieutenant Elias Walker.

In Operation Sand Viper, his group of 60 operators were tasked with defending a civilian hospital from five hundred enemy fighters. Only a quarter of the entire group survived, including Rorke, Keegan, Elias, Ajax, and himself.

Merrick would later join Rorke in the invasion of Caracas, Venezuela in order to assassinate General Diego Almagro. After Elias had assassinated Almagro, Rorke was captured by the Federation and wanted to get revenge for dropping him into the city by hunting down the rest of the Ghosts. Merrick was soon promoted to Lieutenant after Elias became captain of the Ghost element. He took the callsign Stalker-Six and as a soldier of the Ghosts served extensively in "No Man's Land" with Keegan and Ajax, as well as deep inside Federation territory.

By the time Ajax was captured by the Federation, Merrick was promoted to Captain. Captain Merrick was first seen and responsible for rescuing the young soldiers Hesh and Logan Walker in "No Man's Land" during a recon mission. After that he leads his team along with the Viking recon team to extract the captured Ghost soldier Ajax. Captain Merrick lead and conducted several combat operations in the war against the Federation. One such mission was Atlas Falls, which he leads the Ghosts in an assault against an oil-platform. First he plants charges under the ice to ambush ground forces. They detonate the charges and open the assault. Captain Merrick moves with Hesh and Logan to find the foreman, overload the fuel pumps, then destroy the facility. After overloading the fuel pumps the facility begins to fall apart, with Captain Merrick, Hesh, and Logan making a vital extraction by helicopter.

Trivia

 * His blood type is AB+.
 * He is the announcer for the Ghosts in multiplayer.
 * He is the only fully bald member in the Ghosts team.
 * Merrick is a third generation in his family to serve in the U.S. military.
 * His grandfather Clyde died during Operation Neptune in World War II and his father Nicholas "Bull" died in Fallujah, Iraq.
 * In Legend Never Die, he has significanly more hair, despite the fact that he is balding even then. This, however, is not suprising as the events of Almagro's assassination happened 12 years ago, and he could have easily gone completely bald by 2027.