Tommy Briggs

"He doesn't need his own weapons... he's got ours."

- Admiral Briggs

Admiral Tommy Briggs is a character in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. He commands SEAL Team Six and JSOC's operations along with Lieutenant Commander David Mason. Like many of the main characters, he is strongly against Raul Menendez, unlike the majority of the United States. Briggs makes his first appearance in Celerium, first heard via comms, then appearing in person in the end where David hands him the quantum entanglement device Raul Menendez planned to use.

In Odysseus, Raul Menendez (under the control of the player) can choose to execute Briggs, simply wound him by shooting him in the knee or do nothing. Execution means that Briggs will not be able to re-activate the U.S.S. Obama's defenses, while wounding Briggs allows him to do so. Should the player choose to do nothing, Briggs will then rush them and attempt to disarm them only to be knocked out by Salazar. It should be noted that in the Career Record, it reflects the player's decision, and slightly impacts the rest of the story. If you kill him, the U.S.S. Obama is blown up. If he survives and the Strike Force missions are completed with success, the ship also survives.

Trivia

 * Briggs claims that he flew one of the jets when Secretary Rumsfeld ordered DEFCON 3 back in the.
 * He is frequently heard using the word "cocksucker".