Cole D. Walker

"I pledged allegiance to the flag of the once United States of America. To the republic for which it claimed to stand. But we've become a nation under God forsaken fools. Highly divisible. Liberated by lies. Justified by complacency. Moral high ground it was built upon has already begun to erode. The blood of the fallen seeping in, widening the chasm, washing away the very land our men died for. No, a house divided against itself cannot stand. What good is a folded flag, or a heart-shaped medal to a grieving family? Our nation has become indifferent to sacrifice. Apathetic to the ideas of our forefathers. The time has come for Wolves to lay claim to this land. The betrayal we faced gave us liberty. Now we wage war against this plague with fear and retribution for all."

- Walker in Ghost Recon Breakpoint: The Pledge Live Action Trailer

Cole Denholm Walker is a former leader of the Ghosts and the leader of a group of ex-Ghosts known as the Wolves. He was an ally to Nomad and his team during the events of Ghost Recon: Wildlands, but became the main antagonist of that game's upcoming sequel, Ghost Recon: Breakpoint.

Biography
A fourth generation Army, West Point halfback, Walker graduated the top of his class. Bucked a family-groomed strategic command career for field operations. Delta Force wanted him after he broke the record for "land navigation" test, and he was recruited by Ghost Recon. Part of the need-to-know RET Team, assigned for borderline retaliation operations against dirty targets under US or American Ally protection. Currently deployed in more "standard" operations worldwide as a confirmed Ghost Team Leader. It is also confirmed in Ghost Recon: Breakpoint that he served alongside the soon-to-be future Ghost Leader known as Nomad.

Events of Ghost Recon: Wildlands
Walker was introduced in an update to Ghost Recon: Wildlands; in Bolivia, Ghost Lead Nomad and his team were called upon by CIA handler Karen Bowman to to extract Technical Director Daniel Rodriguez Arellano, who'd been arrested by Unidad soldiers due to his knowledge of sensitive US government secrets that needed to stay secret. Unbeknownst to Nomad and his team, Walker got to him first, singlehandedly killing every Unidad soldier that tried to stop him. After navigating through the underground Unidad facility in Montuyoc Province, Bolivia, Nomad found Walker and an unconscious Daniel. Walker then went on to claim that Daniel was selling US secrets to Unidad, a claim that Nomad was skeptical of at first. When Unidad found out what was going on and sent reinforcements, Walker assisted Nomad and his team during their extraction of Daniel. At one point, they were surrounded by Unidad forces, but Walker volunteered to hold them off on his own, while telling Nomad to "finish the damn mission."

After extracting Daniel to the safehouse, Nomad had a funny feeling that something bigger was going on and ended up tailing Daniel to a restaurant in Inca Camina, Bolivia, where he was overheard talking to his wife about Skell Tech director Jace Skell coming to take him to his private island, known as Auroa. He then made a second phone call to Bowman, increasing Bowman's suspicions. Nomad then contacted Walker, who told him and his team to meet up at an airfield in nearby Malca Province.

Upon their arrival, Nomad and his team were introduced to the remnants of Walker's own team, whom Walker claimed were killed by drones Unidad built using the secrets Daniel was selling them. He then swore his revenge, but Nomad told him to hold off on his desire for payback until they figured out what was happening.

Guided by a tracker Walker had planted on Daniel, the team reached a farmhouse, only to find it crawling with Unidad patrols. After Nomad and his team eliminated the Unidad soldiers surrounding the farm, he confronted Daniel, who admitted to being coerced by Unidad into selling out Bowman, claiming that they wouldn't let him leave the country without her, and that she was being held captive in MOB Jaguar, an UNIDAD outpost in Floro De Oro Province. Following this, Walker executed Daniel for his "treason", much to Nomad's shock and anger.

Desperate to reach Bowman, Nomad and his team hightailed it to MOB Jaguar. En-route, Walker went on a rant about how Bowman and the CIA have been playing a dangerous game that gets soldiers killed. Upon arrival at MOB Jaguar, Walker scouted out the base, killing any UNIDAD soldiers in his way, and told Nomad of an UNIDAD captain who knew where Bowman was being held, before going to the location himself.

After Nomad and his team located and interrogated the UNIDAD captain, they went to an underground data center, where they found Bowman tied up and Walker attempting to interrogate her. Nomad and his team cut Bowman loose and hijacked an UNIDAD vehicle to escape the base, with Bowman commenting on how quickly Nomad and his team were able to figure everything out.

Upon arriving at the safehouse, Bowman attempted to defend her actions against Walker's claims that Bowman was committing treason by helping a so-called "enemy spy." While Bowman argued that she had orders to safeguard the interests of US personnel in Bolivia, as well as the Bolivian people, Walker argued that Bowman should've executed Daniel the second she knew he'd turned (a claim Bowman didn't believe at all), and that Bowman could soon be selling information herself if she could protect such a person. Bowman retorted by cursing Walker, causing Walker to erupt in a rage about how her orders got his men killed and aided UNIDAD. Fortunately, Nomad was able to talk Walker down before things got ugly. Walker, being a friend of Nomad, chose to trust his judgment, but not before warning Bowman that if she strayed from the law again, he'd come to "collect that debt."

Events of Ghost Recon: Breakpoint
"I'm a Wolf. Raised to be the Alpha. But trained to follow. Alas, the beast can't be tamed that easily. This wild territory is the perfect den for my kind. A free world where I can roam and explore with no end. But I came here on the hunt. Hidden among sheep focused on their superficial dreams. Moving up the food chain step by step, before I dominated them all. With one target always clearly in my sights. To secure the future with technology others developed, but were too fearful to deploy. By tooth and claw, I took this island, and by tooth and claw, I will rule it. The Wolf knows when a predator nears. Can a Ghost take on the lone Wolf? Maybe. Tracking, analyzing, stalking. Patiently. Tirelessly. But there is no place for the weak and the wounded here. We are Wolves."

- Walker's monologue concerning the Wolves' ideology Sometime between 2019 and 2023, Walker was promoted to the rank of Lt. Colonel and he became the secondary commander of the Ghosts. However, during this time, he went rogue, alongside a number of ex-Ghosts that sympathized with him, creating the Wolves. He then took over the island of Auroa and cut it off from the rest of the world, prompting the US Government to authorize Operation Greenstone, a military op aiming to restore communications on Auroa and, if possible ,secure the archipelago and extract Jace Skell, the head of Skell Tech.

The Wolves ambushed the Ghosts before they could set foot on the island, downing their helicopters. Walker and his Wolves then started killing any surviving Ghost members, among them Nomad's comrades Weaver and Midas, much to Nomad's shock and horror. He then hired a PMC named Sentinel to provide security for the island as part of the Wolves' occupation.

Trivia

 * Walker is played by The Punisher star Jon Bernthal using voice and motion capture performance for Operation Oracle downloadable content and Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
 * His blood type is A+ or A Positive.
 * His plate carrier has the words "BORN TO HUNT" carved into it.
 * His 2 dog tags say:
 * WALKER
 * COLE D
 * 239-48-6405
 * A P0S
 * His signature sidearm in Operation Oracle is the D50.
 * In Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, he uses a massive revolver, a Designated Marksman Rifle Massoud 308 - 'Sharp Thunder' in Blackened and Bare Metal color, and a bush knife.