Vaughan

"I don't remember the damn countersign all right? I'm just a runner! Don't shoot!"

- Vaughan's response to Dunn yelling "Star"

Private Vaughan is an Army Ranger seen in the level "Second Sun". When Sgt. Foley's squad is on move after the EMP made Washington D.C. quiet, they come across Vaughan who is running around the city to tell any Rangers he comes across to head to "Whiskey Hotel" to help take it back from the Russians. He is nearly shot when he stumbles upon Sgt. Foley's squad and doesn't respond to Cpl. Dunn's challenge; however, he admits he doesn't remember the countersign, possibly because, like Cpl. Dunn, he was extremely shaken up by the EMP blast.

After going up to Foley's squad, Vaughan reveals his assignment and gives Foley's Squad theirs, and after a brief update, continues on his mission to alert others, he is not seen again for the rest of the game.

Trivia

 * His appearance is randomly generated but he is usually a standard U.S. Ranger model with goggles over his eyes or on his helmet.


 * If the player tries to follow Vaughan as he goes to tell the others, he will eventually jump over a helicopter, and you cannot go any further.
 * The possible way to follow him is through nocliping


 * It's strange that he doesn't tell you about the dead Rangers or the Ultranationalists hiding in the building that he just came out of, which results in two Rangers getting killed. It's possible he went through a different part of the building, possibly the ground floor, avoiding the Russian soldiers on the second floor or they came in shortly after, even pursuing him. Yet, it's strange, due to the fact that there's two buildings between the place of the encounter and Whiskey Hotel, and they both are filled with Ultranationalist soldiers. and, assuming the 'pursuit' this is an extremely large force for one man, but they may have guessed his mission and hoped to kill him to keep the U.S. forces scattered.


 * The scene where he stumbles upon Sgt. Foley's squad may be a reference to Stevie Ray Vaughan, a guitar player from Texas, which is the correct countersign.
 * He carries an MP5k, which is used by some of the Rangers in-game. Since he is a runner, he most likely carries one because it is short and lightweight, letting him run without fatigue as if running with a heavier weapon, such as a SCAR-H.
 * You cannot kill Vaughan on when he is running down the stairs even if you shoot him several times.