Major Aleksander Reid was a high ranking Gear officer in the Post-Emergence Day Coalition of Ordered Governments army who was next in line to take over the army if Chief of the COG Defense Staff Col. Victor Hoffman died. He was in charge of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit teams and organizing supplies, while also serving as an advisor to Chairman Richard Prescott. When the COG collapsed and abandoned Vectes, Reid joined the rapid response force based on the CNV Sovereign that protected the scattered settlements of former COG refugees.