The Walker brothers were sent by Elias into "No Man's Land" to clear the Federation activity around Recon Team. During the years, Merrick, around 2027, was promoted to captain.įinding Hesh and Logan " You look lost." - Merrick to Hesh and Logan Walker. Afterwards, Merrick, Keegan and Ajax would serve extensively in "No Man's Land", the stretch of devastation between Los Angeles and San Diego created when ODIN was turned against the US, deep inside Federation territory. His location- along with Keegan and Ajax's- was unknown during the ODIN strikes, the day when the Federation hijacked the ODIN Space Station and launched kinetic projectile missiles on the southern half of the states (including San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston, etc.). Merrick was soon promoted to Lieutenant after Elias became the C.O. Elias lets Rorke go and he falls into the floodwaters this caused him to be captured by the Federation and brainwashed by them to get revenge on the rest of the Ghosts. Merrick, who knows Rorke is holding the weight, and that if Elias held on all three of them would die, told Elias to let him go and save two people rather than killing three. A ladder blocked the possibility for Elias to be able to hold on to Rorke without killing the whole team. Elias grabbed ahold of a wire, and Rorke grabbed ahold of an unknown object. Making it to Almagro's helicopter, Elias assassinated Almagro as the helicopter crashed. After being forced to higher ground due to Almagro destroying the dam, thus flooding the city, the team fought against countless Federation soldiers. He then would later join the Ghosts in the invasion of Caracas, Venezuela in order to assassinate General Diego Almagro in Operation Return to Sender. You got to let him go!" - Merrick to Elias. Operation Return to Sender " He's too heavy. Merrick was recruited into Task Force: STALKER, better known as the Ghosts and was given the callsign Ghost Two-Two. The group defeated all enemy fighters leaving only one to tell the tale of a menacing force, calling them "Ghosts". Only a quarter of the entire group survived, including Rorke, Elias, Keegan, Ajax and himself. In Operation Sand Viper, his group of sixty operators were tasked with defending a civilian hospital from five hundred enemy fighters. 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. Thomas Merrick was one of the youngest recruits to complete SEAL training at age 17. Nicholas "Bull" Merrick, who was killed in Fallujah, Iraq. Merrick, who was killed in Normandy during Operation Neptune in World War II and after his father, SSgt. military, after his grandfather, Clyde E. Thomas Merrick was born in 1986 in the third generation of his family to enlist in the U.S.