Vale is a Major in the United States military and is introduced in Spawn issue #16. Him and Jason Wynn have been working together for many years and were “cut from the same cloth.” Major Vale is among the first members of the military to see the secrets of Simmonsville. He an Wynn, from the safety of their heavily secured building in New York City, watch the horrific events unfold as two young privates are mutilated by demons in the seemingly quiet suburbia neighbourhood, created in Nevada next to a gateway to Hell.