James Solomon
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possibly retired |
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| “ | You ask what is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory. - General Solomon in 2002[1] | ” |
General James Solomon was an United States army officer who was the Chief Commander of the Global Defence Initiative during the Second Tiberium War.
[edit] Background
He graduated West Point and completed the US Army Ranger School programme,[2] and after serving in the US military, transferred to the Global Defence Initiative in early 2000s, as a very competent officer, immediately receiving orders straight from GDI supreme commander Mark Sheppard and colonels J.C. Carter and M.O. Morelli.
Throughout the campaign, his forces struck one blow after another against the Nod forces, while he himself managed to avoid silencing by a Nod Fate Squad when Kane's intelligence gathering forces managed to pinpoint his home. Solomon survived, and lived on to lead the final assault against the Sarajevo Temple of Nod, where he ordered the GDI Ion Cannon to eradicate the Temple. Not long afterwards he was presented with a CCTV recording of Kane's final moments, as he embraced the ion beam in the hallway of the Temple; a sight that haunted him for years to come.
He continued to serve in GDI and eventually became it's supreme commander. In order to avoid another war, he installed Hassan in Cairo, who rallied the Nod forces, feeding them propaganda, but keeping them pacified. When Anton Slavik drew attention to himself as he and the Black Hand actively fought GDI forces, Solomon ordered his immediate capture and execution. When Slavik was freed by Oxanna Kristos and escaped, the distraught Hassan sought help from Solomon, who calmly informed him that if Slavik gains power, the so-called Pharaoh will become useless to GDI, effectively stating that no help will be given.
When the reunited Nod launched a series off attacks against GDI forces worldwide, Solomon was the first to be contacted by Kane, who gloated to him about the mistake he made when he took for granted that Kane was vaporized in the Temple. Unnerved, Solomon called upon Michael McNeil to counter Nod. Preferring strategy and careful planning, Solomon stayed in contact with the GDI commander throughout the conflict, often showing his lack of capacity for accepting objection or insubordination.
When Michael McNeil ordered a hasty attack on Cairo, Solomon was quick to inform the commander that he would not authorize such an attack. Yet he was unwilling to risk losing such an able commander to a court martial in case his forces lost, he provided them with a veteran Titan unit deployed from the Philadelphia via orbital insertion.
His life after the war remains classified. It is assumed that he later retired.
[edit] Awards
General Solomon received numerous awards including two Army Distinguished Service Medals, three Silver Stars, a Defense Superior Service Medal, a Legion of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, four Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts, three Meritorous Service Medals, an Air Medal, a Navy Occupation Service Medal, a National Defence Service Medal, an Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, a Vietnam Service Medal as well as Army Service and Army Overseas Service Ribbons.
He has also received the Combat Infantry Badge as well as Parachutist Badge among several others.
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