American John Porter

John Richard Porter was born and raised in Syracuse, New York. His father, Andrew Porter, is a construction project manager and former U.S. Army combat engineer. His mother, Elaine Bridgestone, is a pharmacist. A couple of months before graduating from high school, Porter's girlfriend, Diane, became pregnant. A few days after Porter graduated, he and Diane were married. To support his new wife and soon to be born daughter, Alexandra, Porter enlisted in the United States Army shortly after the wedding.

Upon completing basic combat training and then advanced individual training, he went on to the U.S. Army Airborne School. After airborne training, Porter was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division. He honed his field skills as an infantryman in a rifle platoon within the 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment and eventually attended Ranger School, earning the Ranger Tab. A little while later, Porter attended the U.S. Army Air Assault School. Soon after he was promoted to Sergeant, he applied to join Special Forces. Upon passing the Special Forces Assessment and Selection course, Porter moved on to the Special Forces Qualification Course. Upon completing the entire training process, he joined the United States Army Special Forces. Porter served as a special forces weapons sergeant in the 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group.

As a Green Beret, he received numerous commendations. At some point, recruiters for the U.S. Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta ("Delta Force") took notice of Porter's abilities and approached him about joining their ranks. Upon successful completion of another Assessment and Selection Course, he went on to the Operator Training Course. After completing the course, Porter joined Delta Force. As a Delta Force operator, he showed himself to be an experienced professional with exceptional field discipline.

At some point, Porter's exemplary work caught the attention of a high-level official with the Defense Intelligence Agency, Colonel Eleanor Grant. She believed he would be perfect for a newly-established and highly unconventional anti-terrorist unit within the DIA. In short order, Porter was offered a position in an elite military black ops organization called Section 20.

So top-secret that it officially doesn't exist, Section 20 is a high-tech tactical operations unit that focuses on high-risk, top-priority targets. Commanded by Colonel Grant, it functions as a highly sophisticated mobile intelligence unit with the capability to move from country to country anywhere in the world, sometimes covertly, sometimes with the agreement of the government. All of its work is unofficial and "off the books." That allows its small group of operatives to operate independent of the U.S. national security apparatus and therefore disregard various laws and international treaties. The missions tasked to Section 20 are deniable covert and clandestine operations that would be completely disavowed by the U.S. government if ever made public. They include assassinations, false-flag actions, clandestine insertion and extraction of operatives, and providing secret military assistance to foreign governments in their counterterrorism efforts.

With his wife's full support, Porter accepted the offer and joined Section 20. Alongside Major Hugh Collinson, he serves as one of its lead field operatives. Although official records accurately state that he is on detached duty to the Defense Intelligence Agency and involved in classified military intelligence operations, the details of the job are not mentioned and Porter leads people to believe that he merely has a logistics role. In his capacity as a Section 20 operative, he engages in both covert direct action and special reconnaissance operations, as well as unilateral espionage operations in which he assumes a false identity and goes deep undercover in order to identify targeted terrorists, track them to a specific location and capture or kill them as necessary. A clear-thinking and reliable soldier, he brings strategic clout to Section 20. As a premier counterterrorism operative, Staff Sergeant John Porter has helped save the United States from devastating terrorist attacks on numerous occasions.